The trend of breaking up and making up among Nepali political parties continued on Sunday, with Rastriya Prajatantra Party’s merger with Rastriya Janasakti Party. The two bickering factions led by Surya Bahadur Thapa and Pashupati Shamsher Rana got together after four years to form a new union called Rastriya Shakti Prajatantra Party. Republica writes:

The two fringe parties in the Constituent Assembly (CA) have argued that their unification was guided by the need to safeguard’ national dignity’ and maintain ‘political balance’ and ’stability’ in the country. The two parties with Panchayat backgrounds have maintained that nationality can be safeguarded only through broader unity between nationalist and democratic forces.

Vice president Parmananda Jha is constitutionally the vice president again. He took the office of oath for the second time on Sunday after the House amended the interim constitution to allow office holders to take oath in their native languagages. The Himalayan Times reports:

President Dr Ram Baran Yadav administered the oath in Nepali and Maithali languages. Jha was in the national dress during the oath-taking ceremony. He remained inactive after the Supreme Court verdict nullified his oath of office taken in the Hindi language.

What the government should now be trying to fix is the country’s unconstitutional membership with the International Atomic Energy Association. Turns out the government did not fulfill the legal requirements before seeking the membership in 2008: that little thing about getting the parliament’s approval. From Republica:

The government not only failed to obtain parliamentary consent in this regard, it also refrained from taking mandatory suggestions from the Ministry of Law and Justice.

Additionally, the government also failed to publish a notice in the Nepal Gazette after acquiring the membership.