Koirala, the daughter of the veteran Nepali Congress leader GP Koirala who passed away in March, asked the Maoists to mend their ways and implement the past agreements to create an atmosphere of trust.
A government led by Maoists is not possible until the process of integration and management of the the former combatants is completed, deputy prime minister Sujata Koirala said as a key deadline in Nepal's peace process approaches.
Blaming the Unified CPN-Maoist party for the deadlock, she said the former rebels were creating terror in the minds of the people as they have failed to manage their combatants and their para-military organization, the Young Communist League.
Under the landmark 2006 peace pact, the former guerrillas agreed to dismantle their aggressive paramilitary youth wing and to return seized property -- but little progress has been made.
Koirala, the daughter of the veteran Nepali Congress leader GP Koirala who passed away in March, asked the Maoists to mend their ways and implement the past agreements to create an atmosphere of trust.
Koirala, also the foreign minister, underlined that prime minister Madhav Kumar Nepal will only step down if a package deal is struck with the Unified CPN-Maoist.
If the Maoists return the seized property, help in managing their combatants and exhibit flexibility, the issue of power sharing can be discussed with them, she told reporters in her eastern industrial hometown of Biratnagar.
Koirala appealed to the Maoists to sit for dialogues as the prime minister has already invited them for talks.
Meanwhile, the ultra left party has withdrawn all their agitation programmes for the next two weeks, but will conduct training programmes for their cadres soon, according to the Maoist sources.
The party will hold a grand public meeting in the capital and major towns across the country on May 25 as part of their protests.
Even after calling off their indefinite anti-government general strike on May 7, thousands of Maoists cadres remain in the capital to build pressure on the embattled prime minister to quit ahead of a May 28 deadline to finish the drafting of a new constitution as stipulated by the peace process that brought the civil war to an end in 2006.
The Maoists, who have around 35% of the seats in parliament, want the government disbanded, followed by the formation of a new coalition government led by them to rescue the peace process and draft a new constitution.
The prime minister has refused to stand down despite a week of Maoist protests in the capital. Prachanda has rejected an offer for talks yesterday till he resigned "to make an appropriate environment for dialogue and consensus".
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