Minister for Communications and Information Technology and government spokesperson Gyanendra Bahadur Karki has said that the all-party meeting was not convened by Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba.

Karki said the prime minister had not called an all-party meeting but there was no information on how the news came to the media. The main opposition UML said that they would not be attending today’s all-party meeting as they had not been informed about the meeting by the Prime Minister’s Secretariat after the news of the all-party meeting being called for 9:30 am today was published by the media. Leaders of the ruling party said that the all party meeting was canceled as the main opposition refused to take part in the meeting saying that they were not informed earlier by the Prime Minister’s Secretariat.