Kathmandu, Jan. 11 -- Less than two weeks after their unification, the Ujyalo Nepal Party (UNP) formally split from the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) on Saturday.

RSP chair Rabi Lamichhane and UNP chief Anup Kumar Upadhyay had announced party unity on December 29 under a seven-point agreement. But the partnership was short-lived.

This comes just three days after UNP patron Kulman Ghising resigned as a minister in the Sushila Karki government to take a plunge into politics.

Though the UNP is widely considered as a brainchild of Ghising, he had presented himself only as its patron of the party while picking former government secretary Anup Kumar Upadhyay as its chair.

But just hours after the failure of the talks with RSP chair Lamichh...