KATHMANDU, March 21 -- RJPN forms five-member talks team

The Rastriya Janata Party Nepal (RJPN) has formed a five-member team to hold merger talks with the Federal Socialist Party Nepal (FSFN), paving the way for formal dialogue in the merger process that was in limbo since a year and a half.

A week after a closed door meeting held at Hyatt Regency entrusted presidium member Rajendra Mahato to start formal dialogue, RJPN on Friday gave complete shape to the talks team by appointing Brishesh Chandra Lal, Ramesh Yadav, Sunil Rohit and Keshav Jha as its members. One more member is likely to be added in the talk team soon.

RJPN leaders said that the talk team will now start dialogue with FSFN, besides exploring possibilities of merger with o...