Just three day before the municipal poll leaders of agitating political parties said municipal elections will not resolve present crisis dogging the country rather it will push the country towards the edge of a precipice.

Speaking at a programme organized by the Press Chautari Nepal on Saturday, CPN-UML leader KP Sharma Oli said, “The civic polls are a series of a game plan to push the country towards the edge of a precipice and the exercise will not give any long-term benefit to those who orchestrated them.”

He said the polls were being conducted at a time when there is no parliament and a government accountable to the people and the conflict between the parties, the King and the Maoists is deepening.

Speaking at the same programme, joint general secretary of the Nepali Congress Dr Ram Sharan Mahat said the King had unilaterally decided on the elections and they do not have constitutional and political legitimacy.

He said the democratic government to be formed after the end of autocracy would recover state funds ‘misused by people in autocracy’ in the name of elections.

Central committee member of Nepal Bar Association Tikaram Bhattarai said the agitating parties should recover the ‘misused’ funds.

When the elected government wanted to use the army to control the insurgency the then chief of the army staff demanded an all-party consensus for it, but the government has misused the national force to arrest and search the pockets of civilians, Mahat said.

Nepali Congress (Democratic) leader Homnath Dahal, Rastriya Prajatantra Party’s joint general secretary Khemraj Pandit and former chief election commissioner Surya Prasad Shrestha said the civic polls held no relevance as the major political parties are staying away from them.