Prachanda urges the SPA to work in consensus; US removes Maoists from the terror watch list
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    • With the CPN-UML’s final decision to quit the government, Prachanda met the outgoing General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal and ‘requested’ him to join the Maoist-led government. Reports indicated that the two leaders had reached a tacit understanding for a “working cooperation1.” Prachanda also urged the Seven Party Alliance to work together in consensus in order to create sustainable peace in the country, adding that “no body can run away from the past agreements and understanding, that of forming a government of consensus2.” The Nepal Army on its part expressed its readiness to work under the direction of the Maoist-led government3.

    Meanwhile, in the proportional representational counting, the Maoists managed to bag 30.27 percent of the votes, followed by the Nepali Congress and the CPN-UML, which accounted for 21.48 and 20.77 percent respectively4. Among parties in the Terai region, the Terai Madhes Loktantrik Party finished in the fifth place with 2.63 percent of the votes while the Madhesi Janadhikar Forum was placed fourth with 5.74 percent5.

    In other developments, the United States removed the Maoists from the terror watch list. The Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy J. Powell also claimed that United States would be extending the same kind of assistance and support to the new government as it had done in the past6.

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