DISRUPTED MAOIST PLENUM STARTS KATHMANDU: The closed-door session of the plenum of Unified CPN (Maoist) that was put off amidst dispute has restarted, RSS reports. The session was adjourned after a scuffle ensued when cadres close to party Chairperson Pushpa Kamal Dahal allegedly created disturbance while leader Balaran Saha, supporter of Vice-chairperson and Prime Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai, was expressing his views on behalf of Bhojpura State Committee. Following a controversy on who to present findings as a team leader in the session, it was agreed to allow representatives from both the sides to speak out in turn. Dispute took a nasty turn when Saha close to Dr. Bhattarai side was speaking amidst the controversy about the presentation of group discussion findings. The closed-door session of the plenum has resumed when the UCPN (Maoist)'s politburo meeting held following the dispute decided that a meeting of the Bhojpura state committee will fix the name of the speaker from the state committee and agreed to continue the session. Emerging from the meeting, politburo member Hisila Yami said the politburo meeting has ended the dispute, which she claimed was resulted due to the remains of clash cropped up during People's War. She told media that an agreement was made to allow representatives from both the sides to speak out when dispute emerges in the plenum. Politburo member Shakti Basnet said minor dispute took place in the session and that a rumour of physical attack against one another side was baseless. RSS nnnn UML LEADER OLI SAYS ELECTION IS FOR CONSENSUS GOVT. TO DECIDE Kathmandu, 20 July: Leader of the CPN-UML, KP Sharma Oli has said that the date of the new Constituent Assembly (CA) should be announced by forming a national consensus government to end political crisis of the country, RSS reports. At an interaction organized by Press Chautari Nepal, District Committee, Kathmandu, here today, Oli said that the government has been focused on power greed by announcing the date of the Constituent Assembly (CA) after dissolving the CA in unconstitutional manner in the context that consensus was forged on most of the issues of the constitution writing in the past. He further said that saying that he would not resign from the post at any cost was the mentality of the prime minister of capturing state power, and added that his daydream would never be fulfilled. The CPN-UML has decided to hold election of the parliament by going for a new mandate and that parliament would promulgate the constitution by working as the CA for some six months and added that the Nepali Congress would not make delay even for a single minute to prepare the candidate of the prime minister for national consensus. Oli blamed that the agreement made on May 15 to promulgate the brief constitution by making draft of the resolved issued was foiled due to the pressure of some indigenous leaders. The current government could not be called the government of the UCPN-Maoist as it is only an alliance of Dahal-Bhattarai in the party, he said, and added the extended meeting of the UCPN-Maoist is being out of control due to extreme groupism in the party. nnnb