KATHMANDU: The press conference called by CPN-Maoist Center Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ is underway.
Prachanda is shedding light on recent political developments, including the ratification of the US grant Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact.
Severely criticized for his allegedly ambiguous role in the US grant Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) ratification process, the Maoist Center Chair had invited the journalist on Monday afternoon, for the first time after the US grant project got ratified from the parliament.
Although Prime Minister and Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba and Maoist Center Chairman Prachanda had written to MCC office in US promising to ratify the mega-project within five months, the Maoist Center Chairman had been criticizing the compact o late.
The Maoist center had also staged a street agitation against the MCC.
After NC initiated talks with main opposition CPN-UML seeking support in the MCC ratification, alerted by the fact that the coalition might break again, the Maoist Center decided to vote for MCC attaching ‘interpretative declaration’ to it.
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