CPN (Maoist Center) Pushpa Kamal Dahal held separate meetings with Nepal Samajbadi Party Chairman Baburam Bhattarai and Home Minister Bal Krishna Khand to discuss power sharing and to chart out a future strategy. On the occasion, the leaders discussed power sharing and the role of coalition, a Khumaltar source said. Recently, Dahal has intensified meetings with leaders of various political parties to ask them to help him in the prime ministerial race.

Earlier on December 5, a meeting of the ruling coalition had decided to form a new government from the incumbent alliance.

But, the Maoist Center leaders have intensified meetings and behind-the-curtain negotiations at present to form the new government under their party's leadership. Also Read: Dahal’s power grab ploy Dahal has been urging the Nepali Congress leaders to help him become the prime minister in the first phase after the elections, saying that he made Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba the prime minister by his efforts following a dispute in the Nepal Communist Party. A way to form a new government has been opened after the Election Commission submitted the election results report to President Bidya Devi Bhandari today. There is a provision that the President has to a Parliament meeting after the government recommends the date to the President to convene a meeting of the House of Representatives.