Figment of third force
Nepal, May 14 -- Deputy Prime Minister Upendra Yadav and former prime minister Baburam Bhattarai created a new political outfit named Samajwadi Party-Nepal (Socialist Party Nepal) on May 7 after merging Federal Socialist Front-Nepal and Naya Shakti Party-Nepal which they headed respectively. To avoid a possible overlap in leadership authority, Bhattarai heads the federal council of Samajwadi Party-Nepal while Yadav chairs the central committee. Although Samajwadi Party-Nepal claimed to be an alternative to both the 'capitalists' led by the Nepali Congress and the 'communists' led by the Nepal Communist Party, this ostensibly is a bid to be a potentially viable third force on Nepal's political stage. The unified party's tagline is 'Prosper...
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