Kathmandu, Feb. 14 -- The ruling alliance is in a spot of bother after the Janata Samajbadi Party-Nepal (JSP-Nepal), on Tuesday, decided to vote against the ordinance to amend land related laws.

Its trouble escalated after the Loktantrik Samajbadi Party, which is a partner in the KP Sharma Oli government, decided on similar lines. Both the Madhes-based parties have claimed that the ordinance only benefits the corrupt, land mafia and people close to the government who eye public land across the country.

Though the UML-Congress coalition enjoys a thumping majority in the House of Representatives, it is shy of the halfway mark in the National Assembly, the upper house. As a result, the Oli administration has not tabled six different ordina...