CPN (Maoist Center) Chairperson Pushpa Kamal Dahal said that seat sharing among the coalition partners for upcoming elections has almost been finalized. Dahal, who arrived at Birendranagar in Surkhet district today to address a training program organized by CPN (Maoist Center) Karnali Province Committee, said so while talking to the mediapersons at the Surkhet Airport. Dahal said that they will soon reach an agreement on seat sharing among the current five-party coalition by clearly determining the constituencies and Provinces.

Stating that there was no consensus in the current coalition, he added, "We will forge a balanced electoral alliance for the Province Assembly and House of Representatives (HoR) elections this time."

He ruled out any possibility of electoral alliance with the CPN-UML. Moreover, the former Prime Minister also assured that they will contest the upcoming elections by further strengthening the current coalition. According to him, preparations are underway to form his party's government in the Karnali Province. Dahal also reaffirmed that he will contest in the HoR election from constituency 3 in Chitwan district. It may be noted that Dahal was elected from the same constituency in the last HoR election in 2017. Furthermore, he said that his party was eager to merge with the CPN (Unified Socialist). The newest leftist party led by former Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal was formed following a split from CPN-UML led by another former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli. Dahal said that although CPN (Maoist Center) and CPN (Unified Socialist) have agreed to keep their respective election symbols while contesting the upcoming elections, they were mulling to bring out the same manifesto, said Dahal.