UCPN (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said that the Nepali Congress (NC) has said that it would not be appropriate to form a majority government as all the political parties have not shown readiness for the national government. 

Speaking at a programme to mark the 198th birth anniversary of Karl Max at Jamal in Kathmandu on Thursday, Chairman Dahal thanked the Nepali congress for proposing him to take the leadership of a national government and said that his party stresses on the need for national unity and consensus. 

Dahal made it clear that his party decided to continue its support to the current CPN-UML led coalition government for the time being in order to avoid the confusion at the threshold of presenting the annual policy and programmes and the budget.  

“It was indeed a difficult task to promulgate the new constitution. There is a danger that the new constitution might turn into a mere piece of paper given the difficulties in implementing it,” said Dahal. 

“National unity is needed now more than ever in order to implement the new constitution, to take ahead the post-earthquake reconstruction and to realise the dream of economic prosperity,” he added.