PM Deuba, Oli discuss various alternatives to endorse MCC

Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli held a meeting in Baluwatar on Tuesday.

During the meeting, the duo discussed Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and to end the House deadlock.

Nepali Congress Vice-President Purna Bahadur Khadka among other leaders accompanied Deuba in the meeting.

Similarly, senior Vice-Chairman Ishwor Pokharel, Vice-Chairman Bishnu Paudel and Deputy General Secretary Bishnu Rijal attended the meeting from the UML.

Leaders said that the meeting discussed the ways to endorse the $500 million grant agreement from the Parliament.

A Nepali Congress leader said that the UML unofficially agreed to help endorse the MCC.

Saying that the MCC was registered in the Parliament Secretariat during a government led by the UML, PM Deuba, who is also the President of the Nepali Congress, urged Oli to help ratify the compact.

In response, Oli said that they would continue obstructing the House until their demands are met. But the has agreed to create a conducive environment to pass the MCC amid the obstruction, a leader, who attended the meeting, said.