The parliament meeting scheduled for Saturday afternoon has been postponed for Monday through a notice by parliament secretariat for the second time in this session.

The parliament secretariat said it was postponed due to ‘special reason’. Failure of the parties to reach a consensus for smooth functioning of the House led to repeated postponement of the meeting.

The parliament has not entered into its formal business though the session was called some two weeks back. The parties have informally agreed to extend the session by another one month.

The secretariat notice today said, next sitting of the House will be on Monday 3 p.m. Meeting of the Constituent Assembly halted since the CA members disbursed to districts for collecting opinion from people, has also been called for the same day.

The meeting of the two ruling communist party – Unified CPN (Maoist) and CPN (UML) – held this morning failed to reach any agreement on resuming the business of the parliament.

The meeting attended by senior leaders from both the parties including Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and UML chairman Jhalanath Khanal ended inconclusively, UML leaders told media persons after the meeting. They said next meeting will be held shortly to discuss the issue further. Maoist leaders denied speaking.

PM Dahal had left the meeting venue, parliamentary party office of the UML, before the meeting concluded.

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