Karnali, Sept 2: CPN (Maoist) Centre Chairperson Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' asserted that seat sharing among the coalition partners for the upcoming twin elections was reaching a conclusion.
Chairperson Prachanda, who arrived in Birendranagar in Surkhet district today to address a training programme being
organized by CPN (Maoist Centre) Karnali Province Committee, said so while
talking to the media persons at the Surkhet Airport after disembarking from the
aircraft.
Dahal informed that they were soon
to reach an agreement on seat sharing among the current five-party coalition by
clearly determining the constituencies and Provinces.
Stating that there was no consensus
in the current coalition, he added, "We will forge a balanced electoral
alliance for the Province Assembly and House of Representatives (HoR) election
this time."
He ruled out any possibility of
electoral alliance with CPN (UML), another leftist party his party was merged
and contested in the last Province Assembly and HoR election.
Moreover, the former Prime Minister
also assured that they will contest the upcoming November 20's twin election by
further strengthening the current coalition. According to him, preparation was
afoot to form his party's government in the Karnali Province.
During the meeting with media
persons, leader Prachanda also reaffirmed that he will contest the HoR election from
constituency no 3 in the Chitwan district. It may be noted that Dahal was elected
from the same constituency in the last HoR election in 2017.
Furthermore, he shared that his
party was effortful for a merger with CPN (Unified Socialist). The newest leftist
party led by former Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal was formed following a
split from CPN (UML) led by another former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli.
Prachanda said that although CPN
(Maoist Centre) and CPN (Unified Socialist) have agreed to keep their
respective election symbol while contesting the upcoming elections, they were
mulling bringing out the same manifesto. (RSS)