UML Chair Oli, Janata Samajbadi Party Chair Yadav hold meeting

CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli and Janata Samajbadi Party Chairman Upendra Yadav held a meeting at the former’s residence in Balkot on Tuesday. During the meeting, Yadav reiterated his party’s claim for the post of Vice-President. The Janata Samajbadi Party has been staking claim for the post Vice-President and two ministers.

UML Chairman Oli, however, said that the President, Vice-President and other posts should be decided in a package as no decision has been made yet on who will be provided the post of President.

During a meeting with Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Yadav said that his party should get the post of Vice-President. They discussed the government’s functioning and the Common Minimum Program to be brought by the government. A leader of his party said that Prime Minister Dahal is positive towards the demands of Yadav. The Janata Samajbadi Party had said that it would make a decision on whether to join the government or not only after the government made public the Common Minimum Program. Chairman Yadav, who had faced a defeat at the hands of Janamat Party Chairman CK Raut, has started an initiative to unite with the Madhav Kumar Nepal-led CPN (Unified Socialist).