'Oppn parties provoking President to take unconstitutional step’

Education minister and UCPN (Maoist) leader Dina Nath Sharma has accused the opposition parties of piling pressure on the President to take an unconstitutional step.

Education Minister Dinanath Sharma

Minister Sharma said that since the Interim Constitution has clearly laid out ceremonial role for the President, the opposition parties’ pressure to use “executive rights” was objectionable.

“We have told them [opposition parties] to come up with the agendas for consensus if we are to leave the government, but they don’t have any. They are only provoking the President,” Baglung-based journalist Deepak Sharma quoted Sharma as saying while speaking at a media gathering organised by Revolutionary Journalists Association in Baglung on Tuesday.

Insisting that the UCPN (M) was not ready to give up agendas in the name of consensus, the Maoist leader said his party was open to two options: reinstatement of the Constituent Assembly or fresh elections.

“There should be an understanding between the parties first of all. We don’t have problem accepting any of these options,” said he. nepalnews.com