Govt to be formed by majority support in House: Prachanda

Kathmandu, Aug 09: A key meeting of the main political parties in Nepal to end the deadlock over power sharing on Saturday was postponed indefinitely, opening up the way for a possible floor test in the Constituent Assembly to decide who would form the new government in the country.The four ... ...parties -- CPN-Maoist, Nepali Congress, CPN-UML and Madhesi People's Rights Forum (MPRF) -- indefinitely postponed the meeting to resolve the dispute over power sharing and formulating a common minimum programme.With the parties failing to form a national unity government under Article 38 (1) of interim constitution, they will seek to form a government under Article 38 (2), which means that the party with the majority support in the Constituent Assembly gets to form the government."As we have missed the presidential deadline, the post-election government will be formed under Article 38 (2) of the interim constitution.that we have failed to reach a consensus," Maoist chief Prachanda was quoted as saying in the media.However, he expressed the hope that the government could still be elected "unopposed" in the House.CPN-UML general secretary Jhalanath Khanal said that since the deadline set by the President for forming a coalition government expired yesterday, the new government will now be formed through voting in the assembly.Deadlocked over power sharing, the mainstream parties yesterday failed to reach a consensus on a Maoist-led coalition as they could not agree on the distribution of key portfolios of defence, home and finance in the new government.On Tuesday, President Ram Baran Yadav extended by three days the deadline he had given for the parties to reach a consensus on a new government led by the Maoist, who emerged as the single largest party in the April 10 election for the

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