Senior leaders of the ruling coalition held a meeting at the Cityscape Apartment in Lalitpur on Wednesday. Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and CPN (Unified Socialist) Chairman Madhav Kumar Nepal had reached there for the discussion. Dahal, CPN (Maoist Center) senior Vice-Chairman Narayankaji Shrestha and Nepal among others leaders discussed contemporary political issues.

Dahal has been urging CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli and CPN (Unified Socialist) Chairman Nepal to join hands together.

Prime Minister Dahal has been trying to arrange a meeting between them. Oli and Nepal held a dialogue for the first time during the swearing-in ceremony of the Prime Minister organized in Sheetal Niwas after the party split. According to a source, Nepal and UML Vice-Chairman Bishnu Paudel, who is also a Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, held a meeting on Tuesday night to rope in the former’s party in the government. The ministers of the CPN (Unified Socialist) has been piling pressure on Nepal to create an environment to join the government. Earlier on Tuesday, Nepal said that Dahal became the prime minister without informing him. “Dahal became the prime minister without informing our party. We came to know only after seeing his photo in the newspaper,” he said, adding, “I am disappointed with the behavior of Dahal. We became the victim of both Nepali Congress and Maoist Center.”