KATHMANDU, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- Nepal's ruling Seven Party Alliance (SPA)
has turned down the request of the agitating United Democratic Madhesi Front
(UDMF) to postpone the Constituent Assembly (CA) elections by one month,
according to local media on Monday.
The decision not to postpone the election was made by the top leaders of
three main constituents of the ruling coalition government including the Nepali
Congress (NC), Communist Party of Nepal- Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) and
Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPN-M) during a meeting held on Monday,
reported the local media house's website nepalnews.com.
The website quoted the parties as saying that the CA election procedure and
talks would be go ahead simultaneously.
Emerging from meeting, CPN-UML general secretary Nepal said that the
proposal put forth by UDMF to postpone the election was entirely unacceptable to
the coalition partners.
Meanwhile, UDMF is also busy in internal discussions right now following
late night talks in which the government talks team and UDMF reached a
compromise on the key UDMF demand for a "One Madhes, one province" which they
said would be decided through the Constituent Assembly.
The United Madhes Democratic Front (UMDF), a newly formed coalition
comprising Terai- Madhesi Democratic Party (TMDP), Madhesi People's Rights Forum
(MPRF) and Sadbhawana Party has announced indefinite strike demanding single
State status to the entire southern Terai region comprising 22 districts since
Feb. 13.
Madhesi people are the Nepalese mainly living in south Nepal's Terai
plains.