The third round of talks between the Nepali government and the Madhesi People's Rights Forum (MPRF) ended on Saturday inconclusively, local newspaper The Kathmandu Post reported on Sunday.
The third round of talks between the government and MPRF (also called the Madhesi Janadhikar Forum) ended inconclusively in Lalitpur district, neighboring capital Kathmandu in the southeast, as the MPRF leaders demanded the Interim Parliament be dissolved and the Interim Government hold free, fair and impartial Constituent Assembly (CA) poll scheduled for Nov. 22. The next round of talks would be decided by both sides on Monday.
The Nepali Interim government was formed on April 1 and Interim Parliament was set up on Jan. 15 as per the peace agreement signed between the then ruling Seven-party Alliance and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), which ended the decade-long insurgency in Nepal.
The MPRF leaders, led by Upendra Yadav, demanded that the existing Election Commission be restructured and that Madhesis, Janajatis (Nepali indigenous people), Dalits (the people belonging to lower caste), women and Muslims be included in the new one.
He said the MPRF would wait till Aug. 5 to get their political demands met by the government.
Minister for Peace and Reconstruction Ram Chandra Poudel said they held discussions on inclusiveness, formation of a commission on restructuring the state and a federal system of governance. Asked about the MPRF's demand for a full-fledged proportional representation system of election, Poudel said, "There is already a provision of balanced proportional representation."
The MPRF has launched a series of protests mainly in the eastern part of southern Nepal's Terai region since Jan. 16, claiming the Madhesi people's rights were not fully guaranteed in the Interim Constitution promulgated on Jan. 15.
The unrest with the MPRF involved in Terai has claimed around 50 people's lives and vandalized lots of public properties since then.
Madhesi people are always referred to the people mainly living in south Nepal's Terai plains with Indian origin.
Source: Xinhua
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