Kathmandu, Feb. 11 -- The Janata Samajbadi Party Nepal (JSP-Nepal) has announced it will not support the government's land-related ordinance in either house of Parliament. JSP Nepal's parliamentary party meeting held in Singha Durbar, Kathmandu on Tuesday decided to oppose the ordinance in both the House of Representatives and the National Assembly, the party's vice chair Raj Kishore Yadav said.

He stated that while JSP-Nepal would back the government on five other ordinances, it could not support the land-related one. The party described the ordinance as being in favour of land mafia and claimed it would not benefit genuine landless people, but rather serve the interests of middlemen. "This ordinance is detrimental to the long-term inte...