Mohan Baidya chairman of CPN-Maoist has refused to hold talks with the four parties and the government unless the Interim Election Council led by Khil Raj Regmi is replaced. Speaking at a program in Bhaktapur on Saturday, Baidya said that CPN-Maoist would agree to meet the parties only if they scrapped the eleven point agreement among four political parties that led to formation of the Interim Election Council.

“Amidst the election drama, the four party syndicate has excluded 23 fringe parties including us,” said Baidya. He stated that the amendments made in the Interim Constitution by the four parties to pave way for the Chief Justice to head the cabinet was another “coup” in Nepal’s history.