After a written agreement among the main three parties, Nepali Congress, CPN (UML), and UCPN (M), the obstruction of legislature-parliament was removed. This created an environment to pass the budget and closed the gap between the parties for constitution-drafting process. However, there was no consensus among the political parties on the main issues. While there was no sign of any consensus, ruling coalition partners Congress and UML focused on preparing party-wise and common concepts on the main issues and the opposition parties started protests. Even though the Political Committee was active for concluding the remaining peace process, there was no expected outcome, which further impeded constitution-drafting process.

Parliament Runs Following Agreement
The legislature-parliament had been obstructed after the opposition had been demanding implementation of the past agreements. Due to the failure of various rounds of talks between the parties, even the budget had not been passed. As the dispute was continuing between the ruling coalition  and  the  opposition  parties,  Prime  Minister  Sushil  Koirala  and UCPN  (M)  chairperson Pushpa Kamal Dahal held discussion on resuming the parliament. In the next meeting, there was a

5-point agreement among Congress, UML, and UCPN (M), including formation of a political committee. In the agreement, it was agreed that the committee would comprise of leaders from Congress, UML, UCPN (M), and Tarai-Madhes-centred parties and it would be chaired by UCPN (M) chairperson Dahal for the first two months; the committee also work for concluding the remaining issues of the peace process and developing mutual understanding among the political parties; the agreement also provided compensation of NRs two hundred thousand each to the families of killed in the armed conflict and people’s movement as well those killed in the past year.1 Some of the UML Constituent Assembly members had opposed the agreement. UML Constituent Assembly member had raised the question in the parliamentary meeting of the party as to why UCPN (M) again was given the benefit.2  The parliament resumed after the agreement and budget session was held. The October 19 meeting of the legislature-parliament passed the budget for 2014/15.