KATHMANDU: Negotiators of the three parties, who were in the talks team during the Maoist insurgency period, today said that the peace process and the constitution drafting was ambushed due to a never-ending wrangling among the key political parties.

Janardan Sharma 'Prabhakar' of Unified CPN-Maoist, Ramesh Lekhak of Nepali Congress and Pradip Gyanwali of CPN-UML said that the peace process was going off the track due to the lack of effective implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

The leaders, however, attributed each other for not abiding by the CPA. Prabhakar accused the NC and UML of breaking consensus on the orders of foreign powers. While Lekhak and Gyanwali reiterated that the UCPN-M was trying its best to fish in the troubled water and turning the Constituent Assembly to a failure.

Meanwhile, Prabhakar said that they would continue different forms of agitation in the House and the street until the President's reinstatement of erstwhile CoAS Rookmangud Katawal was discussed in the Parliament.

However, Lekhak argued that the Maoists wanted the nation to turn to a failed state and then capture it. "Maoists have failed both in the government and as an opposition and now want to turn the CA meaningless," he said.

"President's step was a technical issue but the Maoists have posed it as a political one, he added.

Discussions can take place in the parliament if impeachment motion against the President was tabled; he said adding that the UCPN-M did not opt for the solution.

"They do not want solution but confrontation," Lekhak argued. UML leader Gyanwali accused that the UCPN-M was using the CA in a strategic way to fulfill its interests.