A couple of days before President Ram Baran Yadav embarked on an India visit on Dec. 24, Nepali Congress President Sushil Koirala had asked him to cancel the trip owing to deepening political crisis back home.

Deputy Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs Narayan Kaji Shrestha also requested the president to either postpone the visit or make it short.

Many foreign affairs experts, too, were of the opinion that the trip was "untimely" as the country was undergoing critical political impasse after the expiry of the four-year-old special Constituent Assembly in May 2012.

President Yadav landed in Kathmandu from New Delhi on Saturday afternoon.

The president's trip was originally up to Banaras Hindu University where he was conferred with an honorary doctorate degree in the presence of Indian President Pranab Mukherjee. However, Yadav extended his visit up to the Indian capital and engaged in high-profile meetings amid deepening political crisis back home.

The political crisis in Nepal has further deteriorated in the past one week with parties sticking to own guns on who will lead the election government. Ruling parties - the Maoists and the Madhesi front, have made it more vocal that they would not pave way for a new premier.

If they have to choose a new premier, it has to be from within the ruling coalition, and it is their latest position. However, the opposition parties Nepali Congress and CPN-UML, have been relentlessly demanding PM Baburam Bhattarai's resignation, saying that it would be the starting point for a consensus government.

Nepali political parties were on the sixth deadline since Nov. 23 to form a consensus government when President Yadav left for India. The deadline expired on Dec. 29. The president now stands in between two extremely opposing views of the ruling and opposition parties on the government formation.

His absence has cast a negative impact upon the parties, as it has further widened the gap between the ruling and the opposition sides. They have emerged with their own written agendas covered beautifully as the "package deal" contents.

"President Yadav would be further criticized, as his India visit provides a negative message that he was there to seek advice from New Delhi on Nepal's political process," said a foreign affairs expert. "He would have first completed the political process before leaving for India."

The president now faces an uphill task to mingle all parties' voices into a single one so as to break the deadlock.