A large number of security personnel has been deployed in the Baneshwor area since this morning.

Minister for Finance Janardan Sharma is scheduled to table a proposal at the Parliament meeting today seeking general discussions on the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).

Nepal Police headquarters fanned out a large number of security personnel in the Baneshwor area at the direction of the Home Ministry in view of possible protests after the government decided to table a proposal at the Parliament seeking general discussions on the MCC.

According to a Home Ministry source, plain clothes police personnel have also been deployed in the Baneshwor area.

Earlier on Thursday, the meeting of the House of Representatives had an agenda to hold a discussion on the MCC.

But Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota postponed the meeting at the eleventh hour after the ruling coalition failed to forge consensus on endorsing the $500 million grant agreement.

Police personnel and cadres of CPN (Maoist Centre) and CPN (Unified Socialist) had clashed in Baneshwor, Bijulibazaar and Babarmahal among other areas.

A meeting of the Legislature-Parliament scheduled for 1 pm today.