Ex Maoist leaders to knock at EC’s door

KATHMANDU, July 9: Former leaders of the CPN (Maoist Center) are prepreating to go to the Election Commission. 

Leaders including Prabhu Shah, Mani Thapa and Gaurishankar Chaudhari, who joined the CPN-UML after the erstwhile NCP was invalidated, are going to the poll body on Friday under the leadership of Top Bahadur Rayamajhi.

Meanwhile, Lekhraj Bhatta won’t join them due to health issues. Advocate Saroj Budhathoki has filed a petition seeking the revocation of Maoist Center’s registration.

"We registered the petition. We are heading towards the commission to perceive what the commission is actually doing," said Thapa. 

Shah, Thapa Bhatta and Chaudhari were elected through the FPTP electoral system in 2017 general elections on behalf of the Maoist party.

They were suspended as the lawmakers of the House of Representatives (HoR) by the party as they decided to join the UML. 

According to them,  the action taken was totally illegal . Advocate Budhathoki, in the petition, claimed the Maoist party itself is illegitimate.