UML General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal Monday said that “regressive forces” are trying to break the unity among five agitating parties.

Speaking at a program organized by Federation of Nepalese Journalists in Kalaiya, Bara district, the UML leader said the ongoing movement is part an attempt to retrieve the rights of the people.

“Five-party movement is the need of the day,” he said asserting that parties would sooner or later get what they have set out for after the October 4 royal takeover.

Nepal was of the view that the parties were not desperate to make it to the power. “We will not back out our commitment for democracy” he maintained, claiming that people were still in favor of the political parties.

Taking the palace to task for its attempt to curtail democratic rights, Nepal said that the King would remain unopposed provided that he respects constitutional norms. “Nobody has supremacy over the constitution,” said he.

Meanwhile, in an interaction program in the capital attended by Nepalnews on Monday, UML leader KP Oli highlighted the roadmap presented recently by the party as ‘the need of the hour’.

“The 18-point agenda purposed by the five agitating parties could not address all the issues in rescuing the country from the prevailing crisis,” he said.