Political Affairs

CPN-UML has warned of leaving the government if the situation was not favourable to promulgate the constitution from the Constituent Assembly. The meeting of UML's Standing Committee today deliberated on stepping down from the executive level in case of failure to create an environment to endorse the constitution from the incumbent CA at the earliest. The UML party is to hold discussion with Nepali Congress tomorrow on issues including resuming the CA meeting and coming up with a common vote of the two parties for dialogue. BITE... Similarly, UML has also concluded that opposition parties including the Unified CPN-Maoist were not sensitive towards the effort to draft the constitution through dialogue. The party has cited the opposition's unwillingness on taking any step for dialogue or responding to the summons for the same despite the CA's long adjournment as reasons why the oppositions were not serious on holding discussions. BITE... In course of the meeting, UML Chair K. P. Oli administered the oath taking of newly appointed central members of the party Radhakrishna Mainali and Bijaya Subba.