28 parties agree to recognise all parties participating in general election as national parties

A meeting of the 28 political parties in the Constituent Assembly (CA) Monday morning has agreed to include provision to give national party status to all political parties participating in the general convention.

The parties agreed to scrap the present system to recognise only parties securing three percent votes in the general election as national parties in order to ensure the rights of minority and marginalised groups to open the parties.

At the meeting, all parties but the Unified CPN (Maoist) agreed not to change the shape, colour and symbols of the national flag.

Maoist vice chairman Narayan Kaji Shrestha informed reporters after the meeting that all other parties except the UCPN (Maoist) had agreed to retain the shape and colour of the national flag.

However, the parties had different opinions on interpreting the national flag, according to Shrestha.