President asks parties to assembly consensus govt. (DEVELOPING STORY)

Kathmandu, 1 July: President DR Ram Baran Yadav asked all parties in parliament Thursday to assemble a consensus government by 8 July.
He said this is an appeal following Wednesday’s resignation of Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal who was asked to continue in office by the president until a new government is formed.
The president will ask parties to form a majority government if parties fail to assembly a consensus government in one week.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Nepal attended a cabinet meet Thursday morning and directed ministers not to take important decisions following his resignation.
Government Spokesman Shanker Pokhrel later described the government as ‘caretaker’.
Nnnn

MEDIA GOOGLE

“The media house [Kantipur Publications] thinks India is paying back for having leaked Sood’s letter demanding that Nepal grant India the contract to print the machine-readable passports both for security and financial reasons. (What about the payback India expects for the12-point agreement?)””

(Maila Baje, Nepali Netbook, 1 July)
nnnn