Biratnagar, April 14:

Coordinator of the Madhesi Janaadhikar Forum Upendra Yadav, who won CA polls from Sunsari and Morang, today asked Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala to quit on moral grounds.

Talking to reporters after a victory rally here, Yadav said the country’s leadership should now vest in a prime minister chosen according to the people’s mandate given in the April 10 constituent assembly election. Asked how his party would coordinate with the CPN-Maoist that has gained a majority of seats, he said, “We will have to work together for the common good. Rancour is a thing of the past. We have to move with the time.”

Yadav described the MJF’s victory as a victory of the Madhesi people and not that of any narrow sense of regionalism or communalism. Stating that the suppressed aspirations of the Madhesi people had finally found an outlet in the election, Yadav said, “A new Nepal has to be created according to the mandate given by the people. For this, it is necessary to dissolve the present government and install a new one.”