Taskforce meeting inconclusive

The meeting between the major three political parties and the agitating United Democratic Madhesi Front ended inconclusively on Monday.
In the taskforce meeting held at the Prime Minister’s official residence at Baluwatar following a meeting among the three parties, the leaders discussed issues broached on Sunday’s negotiations and did not delve into other subjects.
Taskforce member and Federal Socialist Forum leader Dr Mangal Sidhi Manandhar said the taskforce meeting did not hold substantive discussion. He accused the three parties of holding dialogue in order to confound rather than to seek result citing that the three party representatives reiterated the discussions were ongoing among their senior leaders.
The Front on Sunday had presented a six-point proposal as a basis for consensus. The senior leaders had held discussion on the same proposal on Monday.
Similarly, UDMF Taskforce member and Tarai Madhes Sadbhawana Party leader Ram Naresh Ray said today's meeting failed to make any progress on the agendas.
The three major political parties and UDMF have been claiming that there would be an agreement between the two sides before the next meeting of the Legislature-Parliament. But the chances of agreement as proclaimed by the both parties have become slim with today's meeting ending inconclusively, and the parliament meeting tomorrow.