Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba held a meeting on Thursday. Congress President had reached Baluwatar this morning to meet Prime Minister Dahal. During the meeting, they discussed the presidential election.

According to a Baluwatar source, the duo discussed the possible candidate for the presidential election from the Nepali Congress.

The Nepali Congress has put forward the names of senior leader Ram Chandra Paudel and Krishna Prasad Sitaula. Earlier on Wednesday, the Congress leaders including President Deuba discussed the issue of presidential election with the Prime Minister. During the meeting with Prime Minister Dahal, CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli floated a proposal to make CPN (Unified Socialist) Chairman Madhav Nepal the new President. Prime Minister Dahal and Nepali Congress President Deuba are exercising to reinstate the five-party alliance formed before the election. Dahal, who was appointed as the Prime Minister on December 26, had made an agreement to make the UML candidate the new President. But, after the Nepali Congress gave a vote of confidence to Prime Minister Dahal, he has been saying that the President should be appointed based on consensus.