FDRA Will Play Decisive Role To End Current Political Deadlock: Prachanda

Tansen, Aug. 16: Chairman of the UCPN (Maoist) Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said that the Federal Democratic Republican Alliance (FDRA) will play a leading and decisive role by unraveling the current political deadlock.
He claimed that the alliance will be successful in forging political consensus. The UCPN (Maoist) chairman said this while speaking in a press meet organized by the Revolutionary Journalists Association, Palpa chapter here on Thursday.
Dahal is in Tansen in connection with inaugurating the conference of the UCPN (Maoist)'s Magarat State Committee.
He said the Nepali Congress and the CPN (UML) got fidgety and were now in a hurry to come to a consensus after the parties in favour of federalism with identity, constitution and forward-looking state restructuring constituted an alliance.
Dahal also claimed that the alliance comprising a majority of the parties represented in the dissolved Constituent Assembly would be successful in unknotting the political gridlock.
Stating that even Mohan Baidya, chairman of the CPN-Maoist, the break-away faction of the UCPN (Maoist), had no other option other than to join the FDRA, he claimed that the newly-formed CPN–Maoist could not ally with the front comprising the Nepali Congress and the CPN (UML). He termed the Nepali Congress and the UML as anti-federalist parties.
"I have been elected the chairman of the alliance by 25of the 33 political parties represented in the Constituent Assembly. The UML leaders from the indigenous communities are going to announce a new party on August 31 and that party would too support our alliance," he said.
Chairman of the FDRA Dahal said that two more parties represented in the dissolved CA were likely to join the alliance.
He said even the Nepali Congress and the UML would be bound to support the issues raised by the FDRA.
"The alliance has taught the Nepali Congress and the UML the value of sacrifice. The Nepali Congress and the UML have never gone the extra mile and made sacrifices. So, if these two parties make some sacrifices, then constitution is possible," said the UCPN (Maoist) chairman.
He accused the Nepali Congress and the UML for the failure of the CA to bring a new constitution.
The conference will continue until tomorrow. Over 500 UCPN (Maoist) leaders and cadres of the party's Magarat State Committee are attending the conference.