By Yubaraj Ghimire
Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai has come under
pressure to quit as President Ram Baran Yadav stepped up legal and political
consultations to get over the current impasse.
Nepali Congress and the Communist Party of
Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML), two major democratic forces, demanded
that Bhattarai must quit immediately and pave the way for a consensus
replacement.
“The current government, led by Bhattarai, must
go as it has been functioning with the intention of foisting dictatorship in
the country,” UML Chairman Jhalanath Khanal said in a separate statement and
asked the President to begin proceedings to find a consensual candidate to run
the country and steer it off the current political crisis.
The two leaders also said the election
recommended by Prime Minister Bhattarai on November 22 did not have any
constitutional validity as it was a decision taken bypassing the political
parties and coalition partners.
Another senior UML leader Bamdev Gautam said the
election to the Constituent Assembly could not take place again and again, and
“we have to find a way out”.
President Yadav, who has been consulting
political and legal experts , has been advised to promote and “encourage
consensual approach”. But with divisions among the big political parties and
souring inter-party relations, possibility of such a consensus appears nowhere
in sight.
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