Hours after holding a meeting with CPN (Maoist Center) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Nepali Congress leader Prakash Man Singh reached Baluwatar on Friday afternoon to meet Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba. During the meeting, leader Singh told Deuba that Dahal will not budge from his stance of becoming the prime minister easily. According to a Baluwatar source, Prime Minister Deuba said that he would hold a serious discussion with the leaders of the ruling coalition on the issue soon.

It has been understood that Dahal wants to become the prime minister with the support of the ruling coalition as much as possible or else he is preparing to lead the government with the help of the CPN-UML and some fringe parties.

Dahal has been holding consultations with Prime Minister Deuba and UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli parallelly to become the prime minister. Earlier on Thursday, Prime Minister Deuba, Dahal and CPN (Unified Socialist) Chairman Madhav Nepal discussed possible power sharing. President Bidya Devi Bhandari has called upon the political parties to form a new government by December 25.