KATHMANDU: A senior CPN-UML leader on Wednesday assured that the political mechanism to be formed to effect changes in existing federal structure could be given legality from the Parliament.

Speaking at an interaction at the Reporters' Club in the Capital today, UML Secretary Yogesh Bhattarai said endorsing the mechanism from the Parliament could be a way-out to the ongoing political tension.

Bhattarai said so a day after leaders of task forces of the Big III and the agitating United Democratic Madhesi Front hinted that they were near to some agreement on settling the current disputes over the existing demarcation of federal units.

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The UML leader said his party was ready to forge a consensus with the protesting parties.

Speaking at the same function, Nepali Congress Central Working Committee member, Prakash Sharan Mahat, however, feared that an agreement with the protesting Madhesi parties may invite another protest.

A commission could be formed which could finalise the demarcation only after a broad study, he suggested.

He was of the opinion that endorsement of the Constitution Amendment Bill, being discussed at the House currently, could solve the problem.

A UDMF task force member and senior leader of the Tarai Madhes Sadbhawana Party, Ram Naresh Raya, however, doubted that the task forces might not forge consensus if the ruling parties could not present their concrete views in the Thursday talks.

Another UDMF leader, Sadbhawana Party Co-Chairman Laxman Lal Karna, claimed the protesting alliance was optimum flexible for seeking a solution through talks.

He warned that the protests would not stop until the government addressed their demands.