Kathmandu, Nepal: President Bidhya Devi Bhandari has urged the top leaders of left alliance to resolve the differences seen recently over the issue of ordinance on the National Assembly (NA) election through political consensus.
President Bhandari has made the appeal during a meeting on Wednesday with CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli and CPN (Maoist Center) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal.
The leftist leader duo-Oli and Dahal had reached at President’s residence, Sheetal Niwas on Wednesday afternoon.
The leftist leader have met the president in the mean time when the parities particularly the government head Nepali Congress and the leftist alliance of main opposition CPN UML and the Maoist Center have been divided over the issue of forming the national assembly.
The Nepali Congress led government has repeatedly been urging the President Bhandari to authenticate the ordinance regarding the formation of the national assembly.
However, the leftist alliance, particularly the UML has been exerting pressure not to authenticate the ordinance.
The UML wants to adopt the direct election system even to form the national assembly which is not liked much by the CPN Maoist Center.
The pressure exerted by the UML has created a dilemma to the president Bhandar on whether to authenticate the bill respecting to the constitutional provision or to follow the order made from the UML, the party in which the president had worked as the leader and cadres.
‘I cannot alter the constitutional and legal ways, so resolve the issue through discussion,’ President Bhnadari had said during the meeting held with the top brass of the leftist leaders.
