Prachanda's Maoist party not to quit govt immediately: Report

Nepal's former prime minster Prachanda's Maoist party today rolled back its decision to quit the Deuba government, days after forging a Leftist alliance with main opposition CPN-UML to fight the next general elections.
CPN (Maoist Centre) leader and Home Minister Janardan Sharma said that his party will not exit from the government immediately after knowing that "Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba is in a mood to postpone the parliamentary and provincial elections", local media reported.
The federal and provincial elections have been scheduled for November 26 and December 7.
A Parliamentary Party meet of the Maoist Centre was convened at party central office in Paris Danda to make the decision to quit government.

The minister told media that they received a "secret information" from the Election Commission (EC) about the government's plan to postpone the elections when the Maoist ministers were preparing to sign the mass resignation.
"We joined the government to ensure the conduction of elections in time. Why would we quit the government, if the elections are to be deferred. We have called off the issue of quitting the government for the time being, Sharma said.

During the PP meeting, CPN (MC) leaders argued that quitting the government, when there is information regarding the postponement of the elections, would put the nation in peril.

Earlier in the day, the CPN (Maoist Centre) had decided to pull out of government following a meeting between Maoist Chairman Prachanda and Prime Minister Deuba.
"As the prime minister has urged our party to quit government, we will soon issue a press statement with the decision to quit government, CPN (Maoist Centre) spokesperson Pampha Bhusal had said earlier in the day.
The CPN (Maoist Centre) came under moral pressure to quit the government after Deuba expanded Cabinet inducting eight ministers from Rastriya Prajatantra Party.
Deuba is reportedly preparing to convert the CPN (MC) Cabinet members as ministers without portfolio if the party stays put in Cabinet.

Prachanda's Maoist Centre is key coalition partner of the Deuba government and it has been facing criticism for staying in the government despite forging an alliance with the main opposition.
CPN (Maoist Centre) on October 3 announced an alliance with the country's largest communist bloc CPN-UML, ahead of the general and provincial elections. The elections are seen as the final step in the Himalayan nation's post-war transition to a federal democracy.
Prachanda had said that the decision to forge an alliance with the UML was a result of "extreme pressure and compulsion".
The Maoists have dominated Nepal's politics for more than 20 years after waging a decade-long insurgency against government forces that claimed more than 16,000 lives.

The civil war ended in Nepal in 2006 and Maoist leader Prachanda became the country's first post-war prime minister.
The 240-year-old Hindu monarchy was abolished two years later. General elections next month is being seen as the final step in the country's post-war transition to a federal democracy.
The country recently concluded local-level elections in two decades.
Nepal has been witnessing political instability for a long time.
Madhesis, mostly of Indian-origin, launched a prolonged agitation between September 2015 and February last year against the implementation of the new Constitution which they felt marginalised the Terai community.