Nepal, April 8 -- Political parties in Nepal tend to unite and break down based on electoral calculus. There seems to be new urgency in smaller parties to band together as the government mulls amending the Political Parties Act, making it easier to split parties, while increasing the vote threshold for smaller outfits to get national party status. In the latest instance of such a merger, the Madhesh-based Janamat Party and the western Tarai-based Nagarik Unmukti Party (NUP) have finalised their unity. The new outfit is to be called the Nagarik Janamat Party. While Janamat chair CK Raut will also chair the new party, Resham Lal Chaudhary, the incumbent NUP patron, will act as the new party's patron as well. Their announced merger comes jus...