President Ram Baran Yadav encouraged the parties to find consensus and prepare atmosphere for CA election in April-May, yet the political parties could not agree among themselves. Mainly, the coalition parties were against an alternative to the prime minister Baburam Bhattarai, while the opposition parties were in favour of exit of coalition Bhattarai government and Congress President Sushil Koirala becoming the prime minister. The role of UCPN (M) appeared to vacillate through it all.

There was no progress despite repeated extensions by President Yadav to the parties to forward a candidate for the post of prime minister. The parties kept disregarding his requests. Instead, more decisions, proposals, and conditions were put forward by the parties each time. Though they kept claiming that consensus was near, the dispute over leadership was not resolved. This further increased the distance between the parties and the possibility of election in May also diminished and the issue of reinstatement of the CA came out. The political direction of the country has not become clearer.

Dispute over leadership
The parties were united in holding the elections after formation of a national consensus government, and the President had also taken initiative in this respect. However, the main dispute remained in who will lead the national consensus government. The governing coalition was in favour of turning the Bhattarai into a national consensus government by including Congress, UML, and other parties. And the opposition parties wanted the national consensus government to be led by Nepali Congress. President Yadav desired to form the national consensus government as per article 38(1) of the Constitution.