KATHMANDU: Chairman of the Madhesi Janadhikar Forum Upendra Yadav today claimed that the CPN-UML-led coalition government would soon collapse as it has failed to handle the country.

“Without the national government, neither the constitution can be delivered nor the peace process can reach to its logical end as stipulated,” he said, speaking at an interaction organised here today by the Reporter’s Club Nepal. Chairman Yadav underlined the need of a national government through a broader political consensus.

He also emphasised that a new power-sharing as per the result of the Constituent Assembly was key to achieving the twin goals - constitution writing and leading the peace process to logical end.

When asked to comment on the future leadership of the government, he said that senior and clean leaders should lead.

Before forming the new government there should be an agreement on key issues of the nation, including state-restructuring, fundamental issues of the constitution and others, he added.

Claiming that the present government turned a deaf ear to their demands, Yadav said they would soon launch the third Madhes movement.

“We’ll make public the protest programme on Thursday. We are bent on protest since we realised that without the struggle, rulers are not ready to give rights to the Madhes.”

He also strongly disapproved of the anti-federalist remarks by Deputy PM and Minister for Foreign Affairs Sujata Koirala.

“Federalism is the main thrust of the Jana Andolan II and the Madhesh movement as well. No one can give provocative statement against federalism,” he said, adding that there was no alternative to federalism.