Bill to amend Political Parties Act mulled to ‘browbeat fringe forces into backing ordinances’

Smaller parties accuse Congress and UML of planning law revision to effect splits in them.

The KP Sharma Oli-led coalition government faces a major hurdle in passing six ordinances due to its lack of a majority in the National Assembly. As a way out, it is contemplating introducing a bill to amend the Political Parties Act-2017 to make it easy for a party split thus exerting pressure on smaller parties that are unsupportive of the ordinances.