In Nepal, the four main political parties have said chances of reviving the Constituent Assembly have ended. The UCPN(Maoist) , Nepali Congress , CPN-UML and Samyukta Loktantrik Madhesi Morcha had met in Kathmandu today to discuss the way of ending the political impasse that has continued since 27th May .

Emerging from the meeting CPN-UML Chairman JhalaNath Khanal said the chances of promulgation of the new constitution by reviving the dissolved Constituent Assembly ended as the parties failed to build an agreement on the disputes in the constitution drafting. The parties have decided to hold further talks on holding of fresh elections and the modalities.

Earlier today the ruling coalition UCPN (Maoist) and Samyukta Loktantrik Madhesi Morcha had decided to go for fresh Constituent Assembly Election if they failed to get consensus on the proposal for formation of ten states of fourteen states as proposed by the State restructuring Commission .The Nepali Congress in it’s meeting had also concluded that the chances of reviving the Constituent Assembly was extremely small hence talks would have to be focused on holding of fresh elections.