Sujata Koirala, daughter of Nepali Congress president Girija Prasad Koirala and a party leader, has started secret consultations with Maoist leaders including Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal about joining the government.As other party leaders were engaged in discussing strategies of protest against the Maoists for trying to sack the army chief Tuesday afternoon, Sujata quietly walked out of the Central Working Committee meeting at party headquarter, Sanepa to meet the PM along with other Maoist leaders waiting for her at finance minister Baburam Bhattarai’s residence, Pulchowk.
Although, the details of the content discussed during the meeting is not known, it is understood the Maoist leaders and Sujata discussed ways of including NC in the government and the row over sacking the army chief. Maoists have offered the defense ministry to Sujata if she can convince her party to join the government.
PM Dahal, who had offered NC president Koirala to join the government in a brief one-on-one meeting, Tuesday morning turned to his daughter after Koirala did not give a clear response.
Other NC leaders are strongly against the idea of joining the government. As Sujata was secretly discussing strategies to coax NC leadership to join the government with Maoist leaders, NC spokesperson Arjun Narsingh KC told journalists there was no possibility of NC joining the government.
Sujata has also come in controversy within the party for expressing remarks supporting the government’s plan to sack the army chief in a parliament meeting last week.
Source:nepalnews.com