KATHMANDU, Jan 31 - A meeting of the Seven Party-Alliance (SPA) steering committee, which was due to settle the row between the parties over Free Students’ Union election, ended inclusively Thursday.

The meeting held at the Maoist Central Office at Buddhanagar in the capital has been has been put off till Sunday after the top leaders too failed to hammer out an amicable solution to the dispute, said Nepal Workers and Peasants Party (NWPP) leader Prem Suwal.

People’s Front Nepal and CPN-Maoist are against holding the students’ election prior to the CA while the rest of the major parties in the SPA are in its favour.

During Tuesday’s meeting of the steering committee, CPN-Maoist had reportedly proposed to suspend the elections scheduled for February 28, citing possibility of confrontation among the students due to the elections which might in turn affect the Constituent Assembly elections.

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