April 23, Kathmandu- On the issue of the ruling coalition in Lumbini province, the members of the state assembly of PSP Nepal are divided into two factions and a fight is underway against each other. The party MPs are divided into two factions as the party is playing a decisive role in the continuation of the Shankar Pokhrel-led government or the formation of a new government in a coalition of non-government parties.

After the no-confidence motion was registered against the state government, four out of six lawmakers of PSP decided to support the government and after joining the government, there was a dramatic change in the parliamentary arithmetic.

At the centre,  Nepal leaders Mahanta Thakur and Rajendra Mahato were signalling to cooperate with the KP Sharma Oli-led UML, while Upendra Yadav and Dr Baburam Bhattarai have been maintaining that there can be no cooperation with Oli under any circumstances. On the same basis, in Lumbini province, the MPs of Jaspa Nepal are divided into two parties.

Although four of the six JSP MPs in the Lumbini state assembly are in the government, the other two are not in favour of the UML-led government. Jashar Nepal MPs Sahar Ram Yadav and Pumati Dhegan Magar have maintained their stance of cooperating with the opposition alliance. They are determined to vote in favour of the no-confidence motion against the government. But four people, including Santosh Pandey, have joined the Pokhrel-led government.

As the parliamentarians of Jaspa Nepal are divided for and against the government, there is also a race to exchange letters of action and explanation. Parties in the government have claimed that the centre has agreed to join the government, while two other lawmakers have been claiming that cooperation with the UML is against the party's policy.

In Lumbini province, Jaspa Nepal is clearly divided into two streams, but the centre still seems to be undecided. Since Nepal has not been able to take concrete decisions from the centre, the parliamentarians in the states seem to be following whatever they feel comfortable with.