Far-Western UML's 24 lawmakers in favor of the CPN-Unified Socialist Party

Dhangadhi: Far-western MPs have started clearing their seats after the UML split. Apart from the UML speaker in the state assembly, most of the 24 lawmakers are in favor of the CPN-Unified Socialist Party. In the past, 17 people were in favor of Nepal and seven in KP Oli in the state assembly.

Of the 17 members of the Nepal group in the past, 14 are likely to join the new party, the CPN-Unified Socialist. So far, Minister for Internal Affairs and Law Purna Joshi and former Minister Maya Bhatt have joined the Unified Socialists. Both of them have become central members. Minister for Physical Infrastructure Development Dirgha Bahadur Sodari has also said that he is committed to the Unified Socialists and urged the cadres to move forward on the same journey.

He had urged the CPN (Maoist) to unite against Oli's extremism at a program organized in his constituency. Similarly, Social Development Minister Lal Bahadur Khadka has also said that he is in the new party while Chief Whip of the parliamentary party Durga Kami has also said that she has joined the Unified Socialists.

Former chief whip of the parliamentary party Tara Lama Tamang has also been claiming that she is more likely to join the Unified Socialists and in the past, only 17 MPs from the Madhav group were in the same place.

MPs including former minister Krishna Raj Subedi, MP Bal Bahadur Sodari, Sushila Budhathoki, and Kulbir Chaudhary have indicated that they will join the new party. However, he said that a decision has not been reached as it is still under discussion.

Former ministers Pathan Singh Bohara, Ratna Thapa, Gyalbusingh Bohara, Maya Tamang Bohara, Liladhar Bhatt, Nepalu Chaudhary, and Baldev Regmi have been in the Oli group since the past. He has said that he will remain in the CPN-UML, while current parliamentary party leader Prakash Bahadur Shah, former minister of state Prakash Rawal and MP Harka Bahadur Kunwar have also indicated that they will remain in the UML.

Shah, Rawal, and Kunwar were in the Madhav group in the past. UML vice-chairperson Bhim Rawal is also rumored to have left Madhav's party after he did not support the new party.