Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Dilendra Prasad Badu and Speaker Agni Sapkota held a meeting at the Parliament Secretariat in New Baneshwor on Sunday.

During the meeting, Minister Badu proposed Speaker Sapkota to table the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) in the Parliament, Speaker Sapkota’s press advisor Shreedhar Neupane said.

Neuapne said that Minister Badu urged Speaker Sapkota to table the MCC in the Parliament meeting scheduled for February 9.

In response, Sapkota said that there is no conducive environment to table the MCC in the Parliament.

The MCC headquarters has given the government of Nepal a deadline of February 28 to endorse the MCC compact.

Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and main opposition CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli held a meeting in Baluwatar today to discuss MCC among other contemporary political issues.