The ruling parties have finally announced the formation of political committee that acts as the advisory body of the coalition government.

The new committee has 12 members including two from each political party in the government as agreed earlier.

The meeting of the committee, in absence of UML leader Madhav Kumar Nepal, named Maoist leader Dev Gurung as its chief for the time being. Nepal was expected to lead the political committee.

According to the final decision, UML will be represented by Nepal and Surendra Pandey, CPN (Maoist) by Gurung and Barsha Man Pun, Madhesi Janadhikar Forum by Upendra Yadav and Sarat Singh Bhandari, Sadbhawana Party by Laxman Lal Karna and Ram Naresh Raya, Janamorcha by Lila Mani Pokhrel and Girijaraj Mani Pokhrel and CPN (United) by Chandra Dev Joshi. CPN (united) said it would send another name by Thursday.

The next meeting of the committee has been rescheduled for Thursday to prepare its working strategy paper. nepalnews.com ia Dec 03 08