Leaders of the eight parties of Nepal are set to resume discussions Wednesday to reach an accord on the contentious issues of electoral constituencies and electoral procedures in a bid to address the demands of the agitating Madheshi community, writes newsportal eKantipur.com.
An meeting to the same end Tuesday ended inconclusively after the leaders were said to be undecided on the model of the electoral process of the constituent assembly elections.
The major left parties including the CPN-UML and Maoists wants the proportional electoral system, while the Nepali Congress, the largest party in the ruling alliance, is hesitant over the system, sources said.
Likewise, the Nepal Sadhbhawana Party (Anandidevi) NSP-A has been demanding a reconfiguration of the existing electoral constituencies based on population.
The ongoing agitation of the ethnic Madheshi community – with the demands for a federal republican setup and a proportionate electoral system, among others — has seen the south eastern Terai region in a grip of widespread arson, vandalism, and street battles that have claimed over 20 lives in the past three weeks.
On Wednesday alone two people were killed, and dozens of protesters and policemen were injured in clashes, the newsportal reports.
