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Sudanese political arena is currently witnessing the opposition calls for protests and warnings by the government against opposition with military action, while the Sudanese people seem not interested in responding the opposition calls.

Khartoum's Tuesday daily newspapers focused on the mounting tension between the government, which seems confident regarding its position and its opponents who bet on their ability to take the street.

In this respect, Khartoum's Akhir Lahza daily published a report titled "NCP: Opposition will not be able to topple the system via protests," saying that the National Congress Party (NCP) has accused the opposition of using the so-called "facebook youths" as tools to create disorder and sedition that leads to toppling the system.

The paper quoted Mohamed Mandour al-Mahdi, a leading NCP member, as saying that "elements of the Darfur rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA)/ Abdul-Wahid Nur faction are the ones leading the moves aimed at taking the street and disturb the security."

Al-Ray Al Am daily, for its part, published a report titled "NCP discloses details of the opposition plan to topple the government," saying that "the National Congress has downplayed the repeated calls by the facebook youths to take to the street and topple the system."

The police authorities in Khartoum have contained limited demonstrations called by youth groups through the social website, Khartoum's Al Sahafa daily reported.

Al Ahdath daily on Tuesday quoted the NCP leading member Mohamed Mandour al-Mahdi as saying that "the political parties seek to use the national dialogue just as a means to gain the power without regarding the current political phase that the country is witnessing a new transformation."

Opinions of the opposition parties and the Sudanese government differ over reaching a fruitful dialogue to allow the opposition in a broad-based government, which has been proposed by the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir amid difference over how to amend the country's constitution after separation of south Sudan.

The opposition in Sudan demands the government to organize the constitutional review commission and involve all the political parties in drawing up a permanent constitution for the country, while the government says it would subject the current constitution to amendments without completely cancelling it.

The ruling NCP earlier announced that the Bashir would not run for a new presidential term as part of reforms to bolster democracy in the country. The 67-year-old president took over the power in a military coup in 1989 and then he scored a sweeping victory in a general elections held in 2010, the elections were boycotted by many opposition parties under pretext of alleged forgery.