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Nepali Congress unification talks resume

The talks of party unification between Nepali Congress and Nepali Congress (Democratic) which had remained disrupted from the past ten days has resumed from Sunday.

After Prime Minister and NC president Girija Prasad Koirala directed the party's taskforce to accelarate the process of party unification with NC-D, the talks had resumed. The unification talks had been disrupted following the meeting between the joint taskforce of the two parties for straight two days. Following this, NC-D president Sher Bahadur Deuba had accused the parent party NC of causing unnecessary delay in the unification process and threatened that his party would engage in expanding the party's organisational influence by leaving the unification talks altogether.

However, after repeated request from Debua, the joint taskforce of the two parties resumed homework to settle all outstanding issues by this weekend. The joint taskforce has been given the responsibility of determining ways to merge the two parallel party units at the district level.

The joint taskforce would also determine who will be heading the district party units until the party's convention, according to reports.

Both sides have already agreed that seniority and devotion to democratic movement will be the criteria for leading lower-level party units while merging the parallel units. nepalnews.com ag Aug 06 07