Kathmandu, June 6 -- After cross party talks failed on Thursday, the meeting of the House of Representatives was postponed until Friday afternoon.

Speaker Devraj Ghimire postponed the meeting due to obstruction from opposition parties.

House deadlock has persisted for the past couple of weeks as the ruling alliance defies the opposition's demand for the constitution of the probe committee and resignation of Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak over the visit visa scam.

The ruling party Nepali Congress has insisted that Lekhak should unconditionally be allowed to clarify the allegations against him in the House.

Among the opposition, the CPN (Maoist Centre) had softened its tone along with CPN (Unified Socialist) to allow Lekhak to speak in the...