KATHMANDU, MARCH 31
A meeting of the ruling alliance coordination committee today decided to form a mechanism at three levels - provincial, district, and local - to oversee poll alliance between the ruling coalition partners.
Minister of Communications and Information Technology Gyanendra Bahadur Karki told mediapersons after the ruling alliance's meeting that the five-party ruling alliance would tie up for local polls scheduled to be held on May 13.
He said mechanisms formed at the three levels would assess alliance partners' political strength in their respective jurisdictions and submit reports to the alliance leadership in the next five days. The ruling alliance would facilitate further process on seat sharing on the basis of its report.
CPN (Unified Socialist) leader Beduram Bhusal, who attended the ruling coalition's meeting, said alliance partners decided that they would tie up for local polls only with the ruling alliance partners, not with other parties.
Bhusal said they wanted to decide on seat sharing within the next two weeks.
Asked if the NC was ready to leave Bharatpur Metropolitan City to CPN-Maoist Centre as claimed by CPN- MC Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Karki said the five-party alliance would submit its report about the constituent parties' political strength and the leadership would take a decision on the basis of the report.
Karki said alliance partners would also keep in mind provisions of their party statutes.
Meanwhile, Dahal said at a public programme here today that alliance partners that came together to save the constitution and democracy would tie up for local polls. He hoped that the result of local polls would help maintain political stability and strengthen national unity.
"There was some confusion about poll alliance before the Nepali Congress central working committee took a decision on the issue, but since the CWC has decided to forge poll alliance, we are going to tie up for local polls," Dahal added.
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba also said at a public programme here today that alliance partners would move ahead unitedly.
He said if the ruling alliance faced any hurdles it would try to cross them amicably.
A version of this article appears in the print on April 1, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
