UCPN (Maoist) leader Amik Shrechan said political consensus should be forged within a week to hold the elections by June and the fresh date should be fixed on the basis of consensus among the parties.

However, the opposition political parties have decided to take to the streets to topple the Bhattarai-led government ruling out any kind of political consensus until this government remains in power.

Political consensus was elusive due to opponent parties’ politics of prohibition, Shrechan said at the press meet organized by the Revolutionary Journalists’ Association in Myagdi today.

He also reiterated the Maoist’s stance of promulgating the new constitution by incorporating the agreed issues in the dissolved constitute assembly.

KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress senior leader and former prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has said that the dissolved constituent assembly should be reinstated to promulgate the constitution.

Speaking at a greetings exchange programme organised by the Reporters Club Nepal in the capital on Saturday, Deuba said that CA reinstatement was not been called for receiving allowances and power game.

“The CA should be reinstated even for a single day to promulgate the constitution,” Deuba said. He claimed that CA reinstatement was even inevitable for amending the Interim Constitution to hold general or CA elections.

Deuba’s statement has been contradicting his party president’s stand of not reviving the CA as recently proposed by the ruling coalition-FDRA.