Nepali ruling parties on Thursday decided to form a high level political mechanism to coordinate with the government and help settling any differences among the ruling parties regarding the operation of the government, The Rising Nepal reported on Friday.
"The mechanism will help when needed guide the government to operate as per the spirit of the common minimum program," said Mohan Baidhya, also known as "Kiran", senior leader of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPN-M) after the meeting.
The meeting was held at the official residence of the Prime Minister at Baluwatar in Nepali capital Kathmandu.
"The mechanism will comprise of one member from each of the party and it will be in place within two days the timeframe for the parties to name their representative for the mechanism," Chandra Dev Joshi, chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified, said.
He, however, said that the parties had to discuss more to draw concrete conclusion on the purpose of such a mechanism. "As we have seen that such panels were formed in the past as well with the same objective and they had remained defunct in many ways, we have to set a concrete objective for such a mechanism."
Kiran said that the meeting also dwelt on setting free the prisoners on the occasion of historic political change, establishment of federal democratic republic in the country. "We have decided to urge the ministries for home and for law to work out ways to this end," Kiran said.
Prime Minister and chairman of the CPN-M Prachanda, among other ruling party leaders, were present in the meeting.
Source:Xinhua
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