The Unified CPN (M) seems willing to risk loosing power after they won a legitimate election rather than chance trying to rule with a military that may try a coup against them. In any revolutionary government, the military is nearly always a problem. This may be why the UCPN(M) is willing to take back seat to a revisionist led government.
According to Nepalnews.com:
Amidst heavy political exercise for new government formation, a meeting has taken place between Caretaker Prime Minister and Unified CPN (Maoist) chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and senior UML leader Madhav Kumar Nepal at the Ministerial quarters in Pulchowk Wednesday.
The meeting between the two leaders is significant as Dahal has again set out to form a new government under Maoist leadership only a little over a week after the party resigned from the government while Nepal has been proposed for the new prime minister by the UML-Nepali Congress combo who are ever so confident to lead the next government.
Although both rival camps are holding intense political parleys, mainly with Madhesi political parties, to garner support for their respective alliances, the situation seems to favor the UML-NC led alliance, as Terai Madhesh Democratic Party (TMDP), Sadbhawana Party (SP) and Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF) - who together make the Unified Madhesi Democratic Front (UMDF) - have showed interest in supporting UML leadership in the next government.
Perhaps sensing this possibility, sources having access to the meeting said Dahal had in response to MK Nepal's request to support his candidacy for the post of prime minister categorically asserted that the President needs to first correct his move reinstating the Army chief then "he can think about it".
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