NC, UML to forge alliance in CA polls

TANAHUN: Nepali Congress Vice-president Ram Chandra Poudel today said that the NC and CPN (UML) would forge an alliance in the upcoming CA polls.

“The NC will forge an alliance with the UML and other democratic forces to win two thirds majority in the CA to draft a democratic constitution,” Poudel said in his hometown on Friday at an interaction organized by Reporters Club District Committee, Tanahun.

Poudel also said that NC’s top brass including President Sushil Koirala, senior leader Sher Bahadur Deuba and himself would contest under the first past the post electoral system.