Prime Minister and Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba, CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and CPN (Unified Socialist) Chairman Madhav Kumar Nepal held a meeting in Baluwatar on Thursday.

During the meeting, the top guns of the major political parties discussed Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), local level elections and House obstructions among other issues.

On the occasion, PM Deuba opined that the MCC should be tabled in the Parliament as soon as possible.

Dahal and Nepal, however, said that the MCC should not be endorsed in the status quo without addressing the issues raised by the leaders on the compact.

PM Deuba is in favour of endorsing the MCC agreement from the Parliament promptly.

But Speaker Agni Sapkota has been expressing his reluctance to table the MCC in the Parliament.

Earlier on September 11, PM Deuba had sent a commitment letter to the MCC headquarters requesting for four to five months to secure the required majority in the House of Representatives for the ratification of the compact.

Dahal, however, has been piling pressure on the Prime Minister to take the decision on the MCC only after the local elections.

PM Deuba told Dahal that the issue of MCC should be resolved from the Parliament.

Reminding Dahal that the United States has given the government of Nepal a deadline of February 28 to endorse the compact from the Parliament, PM Deuba said that they should find the way out at the earliest, the Baluwatar source said.

Of late, the Prime Minister has started holding discussions with the main opposition CPN-UML and other political parties seeking support  in MCC endorsement from the Parliament.

The government signed a compact agreement worth $500 million with the government of the United States of America in September 2017 to build transmission lines, substations and roads in Nepal.