KATHMANDU: A meeting of the House of Representatives (HoR) is taking place to dwell on the US grant Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) compact today.
The meeting will be held at the federal parliament building in New Baneshwor at 1 pm.
The ruling Nepali Congress (NC) is rendering its efforts to endorse the MCC through the parliament at any cost while the other coalition partners CPN (Maoist Center) and CPN (Unified Socialist) have decided to stand against the MCC.
Nepali Congress President and Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has intensified talks with main opposition CPN-UML to garner support for the MCC.
Prime Minister Deuba and UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli had held talks yesterday.
Deuba and Oli in the meeting inched closer to consensus on the issue, leaders have said.
The meeting focused on endorsing the MCC compact through the parliament.
Similarly, the UML is making preparations to give a vote of confidence through the parliament as soon as the Maoist Center and Unified Socialist withdraw support to the government.
A provision has it that the Prime Minister has to take a vote of confidence within 30 days when the coalition partner withdraws support to the government.
UML has been demanding action against its 14 lawmakers including senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal who defected to form CPN (Unified Socialist) and resignation of Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota.
There are differences among the leaders of the Janata Samajwadi Party on the issue of MCC.
Cadres of Maoist Center and Unified Socialist have been staging demonstrations in protest of the MCC.
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