In desperate bid, UML collaborates with two fringe parties on polls

As the five parties take forward their electoral alliance plan, the opposition party makes boastful claims even while pursuing any potential tie-up.

With local level elections less that four weeks away, parties have already started flexing their muscles. As the five-party alliance of the ruling coalition has announced its modality for electoral alliances for the May 13 vote, the opposition CPN-UML has been making boastful claims—that it needs no other party’s support to win the elections—in public while seeking collaboration in private.