The Nepali Congress has decided to intensify talks with other major forces on the reservations put forth by the Election Commission on some of the election-related acts tabled in Parliament.

At a Parliamentary Party meeting on Thursday, NC leaders urged the party leadership to hold talks with its coalition partner Maoist Centre and the main opposition CPN-UML after the EC on Wednesday took exception to the government’s decision to revise various provisions in the three election-related bills.

“Since the EC had reservations about some of the revised work done by the government, we decided to take up the matter with other major parties keeping in mind the urgency to hold local polls at the earliest,” NC lawmaker Minendra Rijal said.

The EC had earlier sent five essential election-related bills to the government for necessary paper works to be tabled in Parliament. Out of them, only three have so far been tabled in the House.