The central committee meeting of the Nepali Congress (Democratic) Sunday discussed an election manifesto for the November 13 elections to be presented to a two-day national convention to begin in the capital Monday.

Prime Minister and party president Sher Bahadur Deuba chaired the meeting that met ahead of an all party meeting that recommended the suspension of the November 13 elections.

The recommendation came one day after the Election Commission announced a staggered six- phase poll spread over two months.

Government representatives and party leaders of Deuba’s faction of the Nepali Congress also agreed elections were not feasible in a dramatic turn of events in Nepali politics. Deuba was insisting on the vote to prevent a constitutional crisis.

The central committee meeting to prepare an election manifesto has only academic interest now. The Deuba national convention was expected to kickoff the party’s election campaign.

The all party meeting Sunday mandated Deuba to find a constitutional solution to the current political crisis. A constitutional provision says elections must be held within six months of the dissolution of parliament announced in June by Deuba splitting the ruling party.

Article 127 of the constitution says the King can present a solution to parliament to break the impasse; the article is vague on what the King can do.

Some have recommended a reinstatement of the dissolved parliament. Deuba’s nemesis, Girija Prasad Koirala, president of the undivided Nepali Congress, did not attend the meeting at the official residence of the prime minister Sunday.

Joint secretary of the Nepali Congress Gobinda Raj Joshi represented the Koirala faction of the divided party.