KATHMANDU: Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba met with UML General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal on Friday evening. Deuba is doing the rounds, meeting a spectrum of political leaders in his bid to form an all-party government.
Deuba requested UML to join the government and maintain national unity, but Nepal is said to want to await the decision of his party’s Central Working Committee. The committee met on Friday but adjourned till Saturday without reaching a decision.
However, a CWC member told Nepalnews the UML has already decided to join Deuba’s government and was only waiting to make the official announcement.
So far, Deuba has met NC president Girija Prasad Koirala and RPP President Pashupati Shumsher Rana seeking their support.