Kathmandu, Dec. 20 -- As Nepal's major political parties are split between the agenda of reinstating the dissolved House of Representatives and holding the parliamentary elections on March 5, Nepali Communist Party (NCP) coordinator Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Saturday reiterated that fresh election is the only viable option.

While lawmakers from the two largest parties of the dissolved House-the Nepali Congress and the CPN-UML-have separately petitioned the Supreme Court for restoring Parliament, other major political parties have strongly lobbied for elections.

Dahal's CPN (Maoist Centre), which was the third-largest in the dissolved House, and the CPN (Unified Socialist) led by Madhav Kumar Nepal, along with half a dozen left groups, merge...