Kathmandu, Feb. 9 -- As the support of the Janata Samajbadi Party-Nepal has become a must for the government to pass ordinances from the National Assembly, the party has been dilly-dallying while leaders say no negotiations have taken place with the ruling parties of late.

The vote of the JSP-Nepal, which has three members in the upper house, is decisive for the passage of the six ordinances that the government introduced recently as it lacks a majority there. The two largest parties, which command nearly a two-thirds majority in the lower house, are one vote short of simple majority in the upper chamber.

Though Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba held talks with JSP-Nepal Chairman Upendra Yadav...