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Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba held a meeting on Thursday. Congress President had reached Baluwatar this morning to meet Prime Minister Dahal. During the meeting, they discussed the presidential election. According to a Baluwatar source, the duo discussed the possible candidate for the presidential election from the Nepali Congress. The Nepali Congress has put forward the names of senior leader Ram Chandra Paudel and Krishna Prasad Sitaula. Earlier on Wednesday, the Congress leaders including President Deuba discussed the issue of presidential election with the Prime Minister. During the meeting with Prime Minister Dahal, CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli floated a proposal to make CPN (Unified Socialist) Chairman Madhav Nepal the new President. Prime Minister Dahal and Nepali Congress President Deuba are exercising to reinstate the five-party alliance formed before the election. Dahal, who was appointed as the Prime Minister on December 26, had made an agreement to make the UML candidate the new President. But, after the Nepali Congress gave a vote of confidence to Prime Minister Dahal, he has been saying that the President should be appointed based on consensus.  

The Tibetan community of Nepal celebrated their new year, Lhosar, in the presence of members of the diplomatic community. The Tibetan community celebrated their new year 2150 (Rabbit Year) in Jawalakhel ground on Thursday. The new year of Tibetans started on Tuesday. On the occasion, they worshiped the portrait of their religious leader Dalai Lama. US Ambassador to Nepal Dean R Thompson, Australian Ambassador to Nepal Felicity Volk and Swiss Ambassador to Nepal Elisabeth von Capeller among representatives of various diplomatic missions were present in the program.  

Nagarik Unmukti Party lawmaker Arun Chaudhary’s suspension has been lifted. Speaker Devraj Ghimire had read out a letter of amnesty sent by the President’s office during the Parliament meeting today. With this, Chaudhary’s suspension was lifted. Chaudhary was apprehended from Kohalpur of Banke on February 2. Following his arrest, he was suspended as a lawmaker. He was produced before the court on February 3. Around 12 years ago, the Kailali District Court had sentenced Chaudhary to six months in jail for torching a tractor. He was elected as a member of the House of Representatives from Kailali-2 by securing 21, 871 votes. Police had said that Chaudhary was nabbed as he has yet to serve the jail term associated with a 12-year-old arson case.

The meeting between Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli ended inconclusively on Wednesday. During the meeting held in Baluwatar, Dahal and Oli discussed the presidential candidate. The meeting ended without making a concrete decision after both of them refused to budge from their stance. Oli has been saying that the UML candidate should be appointed as the next President as per the previous agreement. Ruling coalition parties—Rastriya Prajatantra Party and Rastriya Swatantra Party—have also been saying that the UML’s candidate should be made the President as per the past agreement. PM Dahal, however, has been seeking a candidate of national consensus for the post of President. The politics took a new turn after the Nepali Congress gave a vote of confidence to Prime Minister Dahal. After he got the vote of confidence, PM Dahal has inclined to the Nepali Congress of late.