Unified CPN (Maoist) Vice Chairman Narayan Kaji Shrestha has said his party is planning to table a no-confidence motion against the current coalition government in order to topple it and open doors for a new 'national consensus' government.

Narayan Kaji Shrestha

Speaking at an interaction organized in the capital on Sunday, Shrestha said his party is now left with no alternative but to go ahead with the plan, since Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has failed to take initiative for forging national consensus to end the prevailing deadlock.

Claiming that even some leaders of Nepali Congress and CPN (UML) agree that the President's move on the Army chief row was 'unconstitutional', though it was political in nature, Shrestha said the parties would now have to publicly accept that it (the President's move) hindered 'civilian supremacy'.

Similarly, former Prime Minister Lokendra Bahadur Chand urged the opposition party - UCPN (Maoist) - to table a no-confidence motion against the current government as a means to end the current deadlock.

Mentioning that the national sovereignty was at stake, Chand called on the bigger parties to sideline partisan interests for 'greater national cause'. He said parties must focus on writing a new constitution rather than on changing governments. nepalnews.com