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Kathmandu, October 8. Federal Socialist Forum Nepal President Upendra Yadav today indicted the United Democratic Madheshi Front may join the Legislature-Parliament’s businesses.

“On one side, we have a cobra. On the other, we have a viper. We are clearly in trouble, but we have not yet decided which one to choose.”

The UDMF has not quit the Parliament, he said at a time permutations and combinations are underway for the selection of a new prime minister.

Yadav was speaking at Reporters’ Club’s face-to-face programme. He said they had only boycotted the Constituent Assembly, protesting the way the constitution-making process moved ahead.

About the issue of selection of a new prime minister, Yadav said: “On one side, we have a cobra. On the other, we have a viper.  We are clearly in trouble, but we have not decided which one to choose.”

He said his party and the UDMF will take an appropriate decision if a situation arises in which selecting a PM becomes impossible without their participation in the process. Whether we will join the Parliament or not will depend on the context, Yadav maintained.

Yadav reiterated that the Madhesh movement will continue unless there’s change in delineation of provinces. He said most of the issues will settle if the government moves ahead by following the report of the State Reconstruction Commission.

He said they are not demanding important posts for naturalised citizens. “We are only saying that no Nepali citizen should be devoid of Nepali citizenship,” he maintained. The leader accused certain elements of portraying the Madhesh movement as a movement guided by foreign forces. They are doing so by stoking anti-Chinese and anti-Indian sentiments, Yadav said. “Burning the national flag of any country is a condemnable act,” he said in an oblique reference to the burning of the Chinese flag in the plains, recently.