Nepali Congress (Democratic) President Sher Bahadur Deuba (File photo)
President of the Nepali Congress-Democratic (NC-D), Sher Bahadur Deuba, said the 12-point understanding reached between the seven-party alliance and the Maoists on November 22 needed some clarification.

Talking to journalists after meeting with Indian ambassador to Nepal, Shiv Shankar Mukherjee, at his residence in Budanilkantha on Friday Deuba said, “Some points need to be clarified, others need to be added or taken out.”

According to party sources, Deuba and Mukharjee discussed about the current political situation of the country and the 12-point agreement reached between seven party alliance and Maoists.

Indian ambassador to Nepal, Shiv Shankar Mukherjee
(File photo)

Reports quoted party sources as saying that Mukherjee asked Deuba why the 12-point understanding was not being implemented properly. Deuba is learnt to have told the Indian envoy that he would take up the issue in the upcoming meeting of the seven agitating parties.

The seven political parties and Maoists reached to an agreement to bring Maoists into the mainstream of politics and for peaceful outlet of the Maoist insurgency.

“Mukherjee told Deuba that only talks and consensus between the King and the parties would lead to a solution to the crisis,” the sources said.

Mukherjee told reporters that the meeting was only a ‘goodwill call.’ He refused to comment when asked if India had changed its views on the 12-point pact after having read the US ambassador’s comments on Wednesday.

Mukherjee also held a separate meeting with Rastriya Prajatantra Party Chairman, Pashupati SJB Rana at the latter’s residence on Friday.

US envoy to Nepal James F Moriarty and one of the senior officials of the British government Antony Stokes expressed dissatisfaction over the 12-point agreement between seven political parties and Maoists saying consensus between the King and political parties is the only way out to resolve the problems dogging the country and to solve the Maoist insurgency.