Kathmandu, Oct. 11 -- The reluctance of two of the three major parties to go to the polls has cast doubt over the success of the March 5 elections.

A day after CPN-UML chair KP Sharma Oli's provocative statement not to accept the incumbent government and push for the reinstatement of the dissolved House of Representatives, the Nepali Congress has also decided to keep the reinstatement option open.

Most of the leaders in the meeting of the party's incumbent and former office bearers argued that the Congress should take the agenda of House reinstatement together with participating in the elections.

Talking to media after the meeting, party spokesperson Prakash Sharan Mahat said that the option for reinstating the lower house should also ...