INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Kathmandu, December 29Four major partners of the
ruling alliance - the CPN-UML, the CPN-Maoist Centre, the Rastriya Swatantra Party, and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party - held a meeting to
discuss the common minimum programme of the seven-party alliance government led by CPN-Maoist Centre Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal.
Ruling alliance partners pledge to stick together
alliance meeting at 3pm today
Deputy Prime
Minister and Home Minister Rabi Lamichhane told mediapersons that the meeting designated UML Chair KP Sharma Oli as the coordinator of the
taskforce formed to prepare the CMP within the next five days.
Representatives of three parties of the alliance - the
Janata Samajbadi Party-Nepal, the Janmat Party, and the Nagarik Unmukti Party - were not present in today's meeting.Lamichhane, who is the
chairman of the RSP, said the parties that did not send their representatives were also in agreement with the four parties that met today to
He said the three partners would send their representatives in the next meeting.Lamichhane said the CMP would be prepared after discussing
alliance partners' agenda.He said Cabinet expansion could take some time and clarified that it had nothing to do with the PM's trust vote
He said the Cabinet expansion could happen before or after the trust vote.The RPP has demanded to include its agenda in the CMP
It has sought to bring cabinet decisions under the purview of Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority.The RSP has sought to
form a commission to investigate assets of leaders and top government officials who held office post 1990.The Nagarik Unmukti Party has
sought the release of Resham Chaudhary who was convicted in Kailali carnage case.A version of this article appears in the print on December
30, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
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