Maoist chairman Prachanda and CPN-UML general secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal met today at the latter's residence at Koteshwor to explore a common ground between the stands held by the Nepali Congress (NC) and the Maoists over two key issues of republic and election procedures.
Talking to this daily about the meeting, UML standing committee member Bamdev Gautam said the Maoist leadership sought the UML's backing on their two proposals tabled at the special session of the interim parliament on declaring the country a republic before the CA polls and election on an all-out proportional representation basis.
Gautam, who also attended the meeting, said they asked the Maoist leadership to back the UML's proposals on the issues.
"UML's amendment proposals tabled at the special session of the interim parliament is intended at finding an understanding between the NC's and the Maoist's stands," said UML's another standing committee member Bharat Mohan Adhikari.
He blamed the NC for not taking any initiative to find an amicable solution to the political crisis.
For election procedures, the UML is learnt to have proposed that election for 40 per cent of the total number of seats of the Constituent Assembly be held on the first-past-the-post basis and for 60 per cent on proportional representation basis. "This is a modality proposed to find a middle path between the NC's and Maoist's stands," Adhikari added.
