Nepal, March 3 -- Prime Minister and CPN-UML chair KP Sharma Oli is not a patient person. If the ruling alliance had a majority in the upper house, he would perhaps have already pushed through an amended version of the Political Parties Act. The law defines criteria under which dissidents of a political party can split and form a new outfit if they can prove the support of a certain number of central committee members and/or lawmakers of the mother party. In August 2021, the then Sher Bahadur Deuba government had issued an ordinance to ease the split of political parties. According to the 2021 provision, 20 percent of a party's central committee members 'or' 20 percent lawmakers could break away to form a new party. Before that, a disside...