Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Madheshi Janadhikar Forum meeting inconclusive



Picture Upendra Yadav

The central committee meeting of the Madheshi Janadhikar Forum called to decide on the party’s official stance on whether or not to join the new government ended inconclusively Tuesday evening with most of the CC members yet to express their views.

Party leaders discussed ways to resolve differences that arose between two factions after two important party bodies took contradictory decisions.

The central committee where party chairman Upendra Yadav has a majority decided not to join the government, while the parliamentary party where its leader Bijaya Kumar Gachchhadar has a majority decided to join the government.

The party is in the verge of split after 32 lawmakers of Gachchhadar camp submitted their signature in support of the UML-NC alliance against the CC decision.

CC members have suggested the leaders to adopt a ‘middle path’ in order to protect the party from splitting. The suggested ‘middle path’ proposes for withdrawal of the signatures from the Gachchhadar camp and withdrawal of plans to take action against those lawmakers from the Yadav camp.

The meeting that started at 4 pm, three hours behind the scheduled time in a hotel in Kathmandu ended inconclusively at 8.00pm. Another meeting is called for Thursday

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