Maoist chief offers Nepal opposition top jobs
- Published: 27 Nov 2012 at 18.47
- Online news: Asia
The leader of Nepal's Maoists proposed a new unity government Tuesday, offering political rivals the pick of the top cabinet posts in a bid to end a deadlock crippling the restive Himalayan nation.
Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, also known as 'Prachanda', during an interview in Kathmandu on November 27, 2012. The leader of Nepal's Maoists proposed a new unity government Tuesday, offering political rivals the pick of the top cabinet posts in a bid to end a deadlock crippling the restive Himalayan nation.
Maoist party chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal told AFP he would let his rivals in the two largest opposition parties choose their ministries if they agreed to unite behind a Maoist premier in a cross-party administration.
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