Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Meeting With UDMF Leaders

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KATHMANDU: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has proposed that the Constitution amendment bill will be endorsed before the May 14 local polls, withdrawing provisions regarding delineation of provinces from the proposal.

In a selecting leaders of the agitating United Democratic Madhesi Front on Wednesday, the Prime minister said the issues on delineation might settled later the commission and urged the UDMF parties to opt for local elections.

Making it clear that there was not scope of endorsement of the amendment proposal that brand new brought in at present, Dahal, who is also the chairman of CPN Maoist Centre, asked the UDMF to conform to resolve the issues of provincial boundaries through a commission prior to the provincial and federal elections, according the statement issued in the PM’s Secretariat. While other issues with the amendment proposal may be endorsed with revision now, he told them.

After the UDMF announced that it withdrew the support extended to the government, the PM had called the agitating leaders for a conference today.

During the meeting, the PM told leaders that purported amendment to provisions on citizenship, language and representation your past Upper House, however, end up being endorsed just before local polls, Tarai Madhes Democratic Party Chairman Mahantha Thakur informed after the meeting.

“We replied that the front will hold a meeting and supply answer,” he said, “We will hold a meeting and create a concrete decision today by itself.”

Thakur, however, maintained that the UDMF would not accept the Constitution amendment if this hadn't address the demands regarding can it the provincial boundaries.

The PM had proposed that the Constitution could be amended again before the provincial along with the federal polls incorporating the concerns on boundaries following the first commission would solve the issue, in respect to Sadbhawana Party Chairman Rajendra Mahato.

PM Dahal and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Federal Affairs and local Development Kamal Thapa were present at the meeting on behalf of the regime.

Thakur, Mahato, Federal Socialist Forum-Nepal Co-Chairman Rajendra Shrestha, Tarai Madhes Sadbhawana Party Chairman Mahendra Yadav a few had represented the Madhesi Front.