‘Understanding’ on Constitution broken, general strike on in Nepal

<p class="body">A day after claiming that they reached “understanding” on three of the four major contentious subjects of the new Constitution, Nepal’s political parties on Monday did not reach an agreement on them.</p><p class="body">The Nepali Congress and the CPN-UML leaders accused UCPN (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal a.k.a. Prachanda of going back on the “understanding” reached by four political forces on Sunday. The alliance of opposition parties, led by the UCPN (Maoist), meanwhile, said it would go ahead with its planned nation-wide bandh called for Tuesday. The alliance has around 30 parties, most of them small and without any representation in the Constituent Assembly.</p>
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