Kathmandu, Feb. 12 -- Breaking its silence and adding to the woes of the ruling parties, the Janata Samajbadi Party-Nepal (JSP-Nepal) has said it will endorse all but one ordinance-on amending 'Some Nepal Acts Related to Land Management'.

A parliamentary party meeting of the sixth largest political force has concluded that the ordinance to amend land management laws was issued to open legal avenues for arbitrary distribution of public land. The meeting took the decision based on a report by party's vice-chair Raj Kishore Yadav, which has pointed out several dire consequences of the ordinance's parliamentary endorsement.

As per the report, allowing the distribution of land as envisioned in the ordinance would lead to environment degradat...