Rautahat, February 19
CPN-UML senior leader and former prime minister Madhav Kumar Nepal says he is against the proposal of sharing the position of prime minister between the UML and the CPN-Maoist Centre in turn as the two parties are preparing for the merger.
Nepal’s statement follows media reports which claimed that UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli and Maoist Centre Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal agreed to share the premiership one after another.
“Where there will be a single party, why should we talk about taking turns? Will bureaucracy agree to it?” speaking with journalists at his private residence in Gaur of the district, Nepal said, “I do not know if the leaders made such an understanding.”
The leader said a government with the majority support should be allowed to work confidently for the full term. He said development activities would get a momentum once the new government got its full shape.
