It will be better to have consensus among parties on issues of national importance: Sapkota

KATHMANDU: Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota said that it would be better to have consensus among all the political parties on the issues of national importance.

Talking to journalists after the all-party meeting on Monday, he urged all the parties to forge consensus on the issues of national importance.

Speaker Sapkota said that the parties have agreed to urge the main opposition CPN-UML to lift the House obstruction.

In another context, he said that the role of political parties will be decisive to endorse the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).

Sapkota said that he is just playing the role of an umpire.

The main opposition CPN-UML, however, boycotted the today’s meeting,