An effort to forge consensus among the major three parties to forward the constitution amendment bill has failed.

The major three party leaders today held a meeting for the same but failed to forge consensus due to their respective stance, it is learnt. The ruling parties, CPN (Maoist) and Nepali Congress had urged the main opposition CPN (UML) to allow the House to resume business as it has been obstructed soon after the government registered the constitution amendment bill in the parliament. The main opposition party, UML rejected the ruling parties’ request and reiterated that the bill be retracted first to find a way out of the parliament impasse.