As the eight party meeting has ended up inconclusive a number of times, senior leaders of the ruling alliance have resorted to slinging mud at each other.

Ram Chandra Poudel, Minister for Peace and Reconstruction and senior leader of Nepali Congress (NC), accused the Maoists and the Unified Marxist Leninist (UML) of fueling the political deadlock.

“They make tall claims outside. They harp slogans about Constituent Assembly across the country. But when it comes to fixing the date for elections, they start to cringe,” Poudel said, addressing a convention of Nepal Children Organisaton in the capital.

“The Prime Minister has been asking them to fix the new date for the elections. But they have come up with various pretexts to avoid doing so,” he accused.

Poudel said such attitude would damage peace and democracy.

On the other hand, Madhav Kumar Nepal, general secretary of UML, has accused the NC of delay in CA polls.

Nepal has charged that Prime Minister’s obduracy has resulted in the parliament obstruction and delay in the polls.

“PM wants to keep monarchy under different pretexts. The inefficiency led by NC is reason for parliament impasse,” he said, addressing his party’s programme in Pokhara.

He also accused the Maoists that by letting loose the YCL, it demonstrated that it, too, does not want elections.