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Dahal, Thakur hold meeting on Tarai unrest, border obstructions
UCPN (Maoist) Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Tarai Madhes Loktantrik Party (TMLP) Chair Mahantha Thakur held a meeting Thursday, focusing on the ongoing Tarai Madhes agitation and constitution amendment process.UCPN (Maoist) Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Tarai Madhes Loktantrik Party (TMLP) Chair Mahantha Thakur held a meeting Thursday, focusing on the ongoing Tarai Madhes agitation and constitution amendment process.
During the meeting Chairman Dahal called on the TMLP Chair for support to pass the first constitution amendment bill from the Legislature-Parliament. Dahal met with the key leader of agitating United Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMF) as capacity of the coordinator of High Level Political Mechanism formed to sort out disputed political issues existing in the country.
He urged leader Thakur to help end the ongoing Madhes unrest and Nepal- India border obstructions, according to Dahal's press advisor Surya Kiran Sharma. In response, the TMLP Chair said they were in favour of addressing the Madhes unrest through negotiations.