Further details on emerging constitutional, political crisis

Kathmandu, 20 May: Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and Chairman Prachanda held a telephonic conversation Thursday to break a prolonged deadlock.
The country is heading towards a constitutional and political crisis.
There was no breakthrough.
The premier later briefed President Dr Ram BaranYadav on the looming crisis.
The president urged consensus between parties.
Embattled PM Nepal whose resignation has been demanded by Maoists was confronted by another challenger.
“It’s the time for the NC to lead the government. Both the UML and Maoists have lead previous governments,” NC leader Sher Bahadur Deuba told reporters Thursday in Pokhara.
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“Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal could not have said it better [ in an interview with London’s Financial Times]….Nepal’s political instability, apart from the incompetence of its leaders and parties, is a culmination of many other factors, particularly being the meddling by foreign powers, namely the Western countries and India.”

(B. Pun, The Rising Nepal, 20 May)
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“Who else can be termed as terrorists? They are the biggest terrorists. Naxalaism is the biggest challenge to democracy. They want to capture power at gunpoint.”

(Indian state Chhattisgadh Chief Minister Raman Singh, agency reports in Times of India, 20 May)
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