DANG, May 2 Bimala Khatri, who was elected as a member of the Lumbini Province Assembly from the erstwhile Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has opted to stay with the CPN (Maoist Center).Khatri was elected as the assembly member from Dang 3 (B) through a by-election held on November 30, 2019 after former lawmaker and her husband Uttar Kumar Oli died in a road accident in February, 2019.After the Supreme Court invalidated the NCP, which was formed.
Nepal, May 2 After resigning as Lumbini chief minister to dodge the no-confidence motion against him, Shankar Pokhrel, a close confidante of CPN-UML chair and Prime Minister KP Sharma, was preparing to stake claim to a new government under his leadership.His party UML commanded 41 seats, just enough to secure a majority in the existing 81-member Provincial Assembly.However, there was a twist in the tale.One of the members, Bimala Khatri,.