Nepali Congress president and Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala and NC (Democratic) president Sher Bahadur Deuba Sunday met to discuss the unification between the two parties, but could not arrive at a consensus.

Emerging out of an hour-long meeting held at Koirala’s residence in Baluwatar, Deuba said, “We discussed the unification process, but nothing has been decided yet. Unification between the two parties will take some time.”

There will be few more top-level parleys before the two parties declare merger, it is learnt. Earlier, leaders had claimed that NC-NC (D) unification would be announced today (July 22), coinciding the birth anniversary of late B.P Koirala, the founder leader of the Nepali Congress.

Koirala and Deuba had met to discuss the unification issue last week also. Deuba has been saying that his party should get ‘respectful share’ from the central level to the grassroots when the two parties unite.