Kathmandu, Aug. 12 -- Senior leaders of CPN (Unified Socialist) have claimed that the dispute between party chair Madhav Kumar Nepal and senior leader Jhalanath Khanal has yielded a positive result, in that it helped clear the air between the two top leaders.

Party leader Pramesh Hamal said a meeting on Monday between the party chair, Nepal, and senior leader Khanal, held at the presence of other senior leaders Rajendra Pandey, Beduram Bhusal, Hamal himself, and General Secretary Ghanashyam Bhusal, made progress towards a settlement of disagreement between the two top leaders.

"The statement given by the senior leader of the party, Khanal, was distorted by the media," Hamal said, without elaborating. "During today's meeting, we resolved...