Political leaders on Wednesday urged for the national consensus to “far-reaching socio-economic reform and change” to curb the violence unleashed by the Maoists and to gear up for overall development.

“The country is going towards very difficult situation while foreign interest is increasing these days on internal affairs,” said CPN-UML leader K P Oli at a programme on-present situation of emergency and question of nationalism, jointly organised by All Nepal National Free Students’ Union (ANNFSU-Sixth and 2022).

Referring the need of national consensus, he said the national consensus is the need of hour to protect and promote nationalism. “Not a single person or the party can solve the problem being faced by the country and should seek solution within the constitutional and democratic framework.”

Oli also called upon the Maoists to come to table abandoning arms and asked the government to create a genial environment instead of working “free hand style”.

The ruling Nepali Congress leader Narhari Acharya asked the seven major political parties to initiate translating their commitments made last week during all party mass meeting. “Besides of some chronological and structural problems, an unleashed violence and brutal activities by the Maoists is the main cause for pushing down the country into hitches.”

Seven major parties representing in the parliament called for the greater solidarity than the popular movement in 1990 to safeguard its achievements during an all party mass meeting on last Friday. And, they also reached to consensus for introducing -far-reaching reformative programmes, fighting against the anti-elements of democracy and opposing all kinds of extremists.

RPP vice president Dr Prakash Chandra Lohani remarked that the failure of mode of governance and development would lead the democracy into anarchy. “Democracy is not in danger because of the Maoist or the palace but due to the poor service delivery and failure to bond diversified socio-economic culture,” he argued.

Speaking on the same occasion, C P Mainali, convenor of CPN-ML opined that only the political emerged enormously sidelining the basic issues of socio-economy, culture, education, ethnicity and among others after the restoration of democracy. “Due to this fact, extremist power like Maoists surfaced.”

A simultaneous action could take place of building sense of nationalism through fulfilling the peoples’ need, said former speaker Daman Nath Dhungana. “The sense of nationalism is yet to disseminate among the deprived ones from the mainstream, which comprises majority of the population.”

Dhungana also noted fight and dialogue could go together in democracy and same had to be tried to solve the crisis, “The Maoists problem should solved internally with minimum consensus of all walks of civic society,” he said.