KATHMANDU: Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has called a meeting of the coalition of 22 parties at his office in Singha Durbar, Kathmandu on Thursday at 3 pm.

According to CP Mainali, general secretary of Marxist Leninist (ML), the meeting has been called to discuss the present political stalemate including the UCPN-Maoist protest programme, the budget of fiscal year 2009/10 and to resume the disrupted Legislative-Parliament.