Minister for Education and Sports and UML leader Pradeep Nepal has ruled out the need for leftist alliance in the current political scenario.

Speaking at a press meet organised by Press Chautari Nepal in Kailali Tuesday, Nepal described ‘unnecessary’ the call made by some leaders for an alliance of leftist forces. “The latest meting of the UML has rejected the agenda of leftist alliance,” he said.

He made clear that there was no discussion whatsoever between UML general secretary Madhav Nepal and Maoist chairman Prachanda on the issue.

Senior UML leader Bamdev Gautam and some other leaders have been stressing the need for an alliance of left parties, especially between the UML and the CPN (Maoist), to ensure communist victory in the upcoming constituent assembly election.

Gautam is learnt to have raised the issue at the ongoing meeting of the UML central committee. Few days earlier, he criticised general secretary Nepal’s political paper presented at the central committee, terming the Maoists as ‘extreme leftists’.

In his political paper, Nepal has termed the king, royal family and the royalists as ‘regressive elements’, Nepali Congress and Nepali Congress (Democratic) as ‘bourgeoisie reformists’ and Maoists as ‘extreme leftists’.