Kathmandu, February 19
Accusing his party of exchanging ministerial positions for money, a lawmaker of CPN-UML in Province 6 Assembly has announced resignation.
The provincial lawmaker from Mugu district, Chandra Bahadur Shahi, says his party distributed powerful positions to people who paid money, thereby giving injustice to other deserving leaders.
Shahi, an advisor to the party’s central committee, also claims he also gave up the party’s general membership. Shahi says he has already submitted his resignation from the Assembly to the provincial speaker and will submit the resignation as the party’s member to the central office.
Earlier, Shahi had laid claim to the provincial speaker’s position. The party, however, did not meet his expectation as it nominated Raj Bahadur Shahi as the speaker. Following that, he has expected to be made a minister in the provincial government, but he failed in that too.
Shahi has accused the provincial parliamentary party leader Yamlal Kandel of nominating ministers on the basis of who could pay him how much.
