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The meeting of the House of Representatives has been postponed till Friday. 

Speaker Agni Prasad Sapokota postponed the meeting after endorsing the report of Tharu Commission and a condolence motion. 

He said that the next meeting will be held on Friday.

Cadres of various political parties staged a demonstration against the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) in New Baneshwor on Wednesday.

Police used a water cannon to disperse the crowd from the area.

The government was planning to table the MCC in the Parliament today but Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal had a meeting this afternoon and decided not to table the compact in the meeting of the House of Representatives.

Prime Minister Deuba has called a meeting of the coalition for 3 pm tomorrow to hold the decisive discussion on the MCC.

The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) will not be tabled in the meeting of the House of Representatives today.

Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal held a meeting this morning and agreed not to table the MCC in the Parliament today.

Soon after the Parliamentary Party meeting, Dahal reached Baluwatar to inform Prime Minister Deuba that the party had decided not to table the MCC without forging national consensus.

The duo had agreed to hold a meeting of the alliance at 3 pm tomorrow in an attempt to forge consensus on the MCC.

The Maoist Centre warned that the coalition will break down if the MCC is tabled forcefully in the Parliament.

“The coalition will fall apart if the government tables the MCC without the decision of the alliance. The government will also break down if the coalition falls apart,” Party Chief Whip Dev Gurung said.

The Parliament meeting has been scheduled for 1 pm today.

The CPN (Maoist Centre) has decided not to take the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Nepal compact ahead without forging national consensus.

A Parliamentary Party meeting of the Maoist Centre held at the party’s Parliamentary Party Office in Singhadurbar on Wednesday said that the agenda could not be taken ahead until the main opposition CPN-UML lifted the House obstruction.

Talking to journalists after the meeting, party Chief Whip Dev Gurung said that the meeting has decided not to take the MCC compact ahead until the UML ends the House obstruction.