A meeting of the top leaders of the ruling alliance has started a while ago at the Prime Minister’s official residence in Baluwatar.
The Prime Minister’s Secretariat stated that the meeting would hold discussions on the recent share deal of telecommunications company, Ncell.
Prime Minister and CPN (Maoist Centre) Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’, Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba, CPN (Unified Socialist) Chair Madhav Kumar Nepal, Deputy Prime Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha, the Finance Minister, the Minister for Law, the Minister for Communications and Information Technology and other leaders of the ruling alliance are present at the meeting.
It is stated that Malaysian company ‘Axiata Group Berhad’ has decided to sell its 80 per cent of the Ncell’s shares to Spectrlite UK Limited, a company based in the UK.
Questions have been raised from different walks of life over the legitimacy and transparency of the business deal as it was agreed without informing the regulatory body as well.
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rce: National News Agency Nepal