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Top Nepali parties fight for PM post

by Sanjay Jha | August 14, 2008 at 12:26 am

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Many months after elections results in Nepal, Political crisis is still continuing and no solution seems to be visible in sight. Although Nepal has been able to elect its first President and Vice President after kicking out King. But Political Parties have not been able to form a government.

The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and the Nepali Congress (NC) are all set to file their candidacies for the election of the Prime Minister to be held on Friday in the Constituent Assembly.

Although NC, the second largest CA party, has yet to decide on its candidate, the single largest party CPN-M is now prepared to pitch Prachanda to contest for the top executive post, The Rising Nepal reported.

The parties are, nonetheless, voicing for a last ditch effort to strike consensus even till the last moment of candidacy withdrawal scheduled also for Thursday.

"Yes, there will be nomination and we will try to make it unanimous," Prachanda told reporters when asked about file his candidacy for Prime Minister.

Confirming the party's decision, CPN-M senior leader C.P. Gajurel said the party had made no changes in its earlier decision to lead the government and that the party chairman would be nominated to contest the elections for the top post.

The CPN-M Chairman Prachanda had met General Secretary Jhala Nath Khanal of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), the third largest CA party, on Wednesday morning and had agreed that attempt should be made to form a national consensus government.

Nepali Congress leader Prakash Sharan Mahat said that his party would as well nominate its candidate.

Meanwhile, a meeting of the 16 fringe parties represented in the CA decided to back the CPN-M bid to lead the next government.