Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and CPN (Unified Socialist) Chairman Madhav Kumar Nepal held a meeting on Wednesday.

Dahal and Nepal reached Baluwatar this morning to hold a meeting with the Prime Minister.

“The trio discussed contemporary political issues for about an hour,” the PM's Secretariat said.

Earlier on Tuesday, PM Deuba held a meeting with the officials of the Election Commission to hold the local level elections on May 18.

The Prime Minister is planning to announce the date of the local elections in the next Cabinet meeting.

However, the parties in the ruling coalition have differences over the parliamentary ratification of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).

CPN (Maoist Centre) and CPN (Unified Socialist) have been saying that the MCC should not be endorsed in the status quo. On the other hand, PM Deuba is in favour of endorsing the MCC at any cost.