Kathmandu, Jan. 6 -- Four major political parties in the dissolved House of Representatives are set to partner for the upcoming National Assembly election set for January 25.

On March 4, eighteen National Assembly members or one third of the 59-strong upper house will retire. Such retirements happen biennially, and elections are held to fill the vacant seats.

And now negotiations are underway between the Nepali Congress, the CPN-UML, the Nepali Communist Party, and a front of Madhes-based parties for the January 25 election.

According to the leaders from the Congress, UML and NCP, cross-party negotiations continue to split the 18 vacant seats among the Congress, UML, Nepali Communist Party and Janata Samajbadi Party Nepal at the rate o...