KATHMANDU: UML standing committee member and former finance minister Surendra Pandey has indicated that he will not join the newly formed CPN-UML Socialist Party established by senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal. Earlier, he had been active in the Nepal group.
Congratulating UML Vice-Chairperson Ashta Lakshmi Shakya on her selection as the Parliamentary Party leader of Bagmati Province on Wednesday, leader Pandey has hinted that he will stay in party’s establishment led by Chairman KP Oli despite having differences with the latter’s party governance.
“I would like to congratulate comrade Asta Laxmi Shakya for being selected as the parliamentary party leader of Bagmati province,” Pandey wrote on his social media wall, adding, “She will soon take the responsibility of Chief Minister of the province, I wish her successful tenure in the post.”
His message has been interpreted as the revelation of the fact that he is least likely to join Khanal-Nepal factions’ newly formed UML Democratic.
Pandey used to be a vocal critic of UML Chair KP Oli.
She was once a vocal critic of UML president KP Sharma Oli. After the resignation of Bagmati Chief Minister Dor Mani Poudel today, Shakya has been unanimously elected as the leader of the parliamentary party.
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