12 Baisakh, Kathmandu: Nepali Congress president Sher Bahadur Deuba has expressed happiness over formation of the Janata Samajbadi Party with the unification of the Samajbadi Party and the Rastriya Janata Party, the two parties represented in the Federal Parliament.
The two parties had reached a unification agreement on Wednesday night and informed the Election Commission and the Federal Parliament Secretariat about their decision on Thursday.
In a statement on Thursday, Deuba, the main opposition party leader in Federal Parliament, believed the unification of the two parties would help strengthen the multi-party competitive federal democratic republican parliamentary system based on pluralism.
NC president Deuba has congratulated and extended best wishes on his behalf and on behalf of his party to the leadership and all affiliated to the newly-constituted Janata Samajbadi Party.
