Kathmandu, May 19:

Former Prime Minister and president of Nepali Congress-Democratic Sher Bahadur Deuba today said that he would demand no prominent post in the unified Nepali Congress.

“I don’t want anything. I’m not looking for any post and I will not accept even if it is offered to me for the sake of unification,” he said while talking with journalists after a talk programme of Nepal Jaycees.

His comment came at a time when it is being speculated that NC-D is avoiding the issue

of party unification because NC is not offering him the post of vice-president.

Rather than talking with one leader on the issue of party unification, the activists from top to bottom level should be included in the process, he said, while admitting that the process of unification of the two Nepali Congress has begun but refused to give any date for announcement of unification.

Responsible leaders of all parties should attend the meetings and discuss things there rather than going to the public and spilling the beans, he said.

Maoist leader Barsha Man Pun ‘Ananta’ said that the seven-party leaders, the administrators as well as the security forces are still not ready to accept that the Maoists have joined the government.

“It seems that the seven-party alliance has made up its mind to isolate Maoists and chase them away from the political scene,” he said. He also charged the alliance of deliberately pushing the Maoists to take some “revolutionary” decisions so that they would again enjoy politics for some more years.

He also charged the UML of showing dual character. “It is strange that UML leaders promise functional unity with the Maoists but at the same time talk against such unity when NC leaders are present,” he said.

NC leader Mahesh Acharya said that nobody should raise question over NC’s stand on monarchy because the party has already decided to quit the agenda of monarchy.

“NC should understand that it should not come up with major decisions without clearly discussing with the member parties,” he said.

UML leader Pradip Gyawali raised question over the continuity of the unity among the parties, in the present context when major party leaders have openly come to ask for ground of new relation.

He ruled out possibility of making common front with the Maoists.