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Ram Sahaya Yadav has been elected the Parliamentary Party leader of the Janata Samajbadi Party on Wednesday. JSP spokesperson Manish Suman said Yadav was elected to the post unanimously. Only Yadav's nomination was filed for the election to the party's Parliamentary Party leader and the Election Committee declared him elected to the post unopposed. Yadav is elected to the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Federal Parliament, from Bara-2. JSP Federal Council Chairman Ashok Rai and lawmakers Raj Kishor Yadav and Nawal Kishor Saha had also shown their interest in the post, but they did not file their candidacy to the post at the time of the filing of nominations. JSP has 12 lawmakers in the House of Representatives. The party has supported the government led by CPN (Maoist Centre) Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal.

Senior leaders of the ruling coalition held a meeting at the Cityscape Apartment in Lalitpur on Wednesday. Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and CPN (Unified Socialist) Chairman Madhav Kumar Nepal had reached there for the discussion. Dahal, CPN (Maoist Center) senior Vice-Chairman Narayankaji Shrestha and Nepal among others leaders discussed contemporary political issues. Dahal has been urging CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli and CPN (Unified Socialist) Chairman Nepal to join hands together. Prime Minister Dahal has been trying to arrange a meeting between them. Oli and Nepal held a dialogue for the first time during the swearing-in ceremony of the Prime Minister organized in Sheetal Niwas after the party split. According to a source, Nepal and UML Vice-Chairman Bishnu Paudel, who is also a Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, held a meeting on Tuesday night to rope in the former’s party in the government. The ministers of the CPN (Unified Socialist) has been piling pressure on Nepal to create an environment to join the government. Earlier on Tuesday, Nepal said that Dahal became the prime minister without informing him. “Dahal became the prime minister without informing our party. We came to know only after seeing his photo in the newspaper,” he said, adding, “I am disappointed with the behavior of Dahal. We became the victim of both Nepali Congress and Maoist Center.”  

Prime Minister and CPN (Maoist Center) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and CPN-UML Chairman held a meeting on Wednesday. Oli had reached Khumaltar to meet Dahal this afternoon. Dahal became the prime minister for the third time with the support of UML Chairman Oli. Though Dahal became the prime minister, they are yet to make a decision on the distribution of many important posts. The UML will get the post of President and Speaker. The Maoist Center, who got the post of prime minister, will get the post of Vice-President and Rastriya Swatantra Party will get Deputy Speaker. This is the first time that Oli reached Khumaltar today after the alliance of UML-Maoist Center. Preparations are also underway to rope in Madhav Kumar Nepal-led CPN (Unified Socialist) in the ruling coalition.

The Nepali Congress called its Central Working Committee meeting for January 6. NC Party Office Chief Secretary Krishna Prasad Poudel said that the meeting will take place at the party's central office in Sanepa at 1 pm. It has been learnt that the meeting will review the elections to the House of Representatives and Province Assembly and discuss the contemporary political issues. NC central working committee office bearers and members have been urged to attend the meeting. The Nepali Congress is the largest party in the House of Representatives with 89 seats.