Under prevailing circumstances, Chairman Pushpa Kamal of Unified Maoists told Prime Minister Sushil Koirala point blank, “there could not be talks with the ruling parties”.

Caps the possibility.

Poor Prime Minister Sushil had held talks with Pushpa Kamal over telephone, Thursday.

To recall, Prime Minister Sushil early morning last Friday had headed straight towards the private residence of Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal of Unified Maoists. He had returned empty handed.

It was taken as the gate-crash that it was.

Koirala had himself made a telephone call to Chairman Pushpa Kamal and requested the opposition for talks.

Dahal instead said there was no meaning for holding talks unless ruling parties make a formal commitment to promulgate constitution in consensus.

The Kantipur Online reports quoting sources close to Pushpa Kamal, “The conversation did not last much. No progress was made.”

The report further states that in the last week Koirala had called Pushpa Kamal three times.

Later in a briefing with his alliance partners about his meeting with the Prime Minister and subsequent telephone calls that PM Koirala made to him, Pushpa Kamal made some nasty personal comments against Koirala which had irked leaders of some opposition parties, the Tarun vernacular daily reported.

Look what Pushpa Kamal said of Sushil.

“He called me several times. I did not pick up the phone. Once he called me early in the morning. I just felt that I should not pick his phone. I did not receive the call twice. I felt later, an old man who can barely talk with a tongue that is nonfunctioning, an idiot he may be but still he is the Prime Minister. I picked the phone. The shameless person asks me to hold talks. I told him what for talks now? A direct war has already begun. I told him directly to correct his decisions else stop his drama for holding talks again. He was still trying to talk to me, I just cut the line.”

In the meeting also present were Madhesi Janaadhikar Forum- Nepal Chairman Bijaya Gacchehdar and Chairman Mahanta Thakur of Tarai Madhesh Loktantrik Party—who had worked along with Koirala in the Nepali Congress Party. Both the leaders felt uneasy when Pushpa Kamal was criticizing Koirala, confirms Tarun weekly.

In the same meeting his party vice chairman Narayan Kaji who was urging the chairman to rethink on his protest strategy was instead told to shut his mouth.

This is Pushpa Kamal!

@telegraphnepal