Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) lawmaker Ram Bir Manandhar will resign to get leader Bam Dev Gautam elected to the House of Representatives (HoR).
"I have to resign when the party seeks my resignation," Manandhar told Setopati when asked about the reason for his resignation. He is holding a press conference later Tuesday to announce his resignation.
CPN Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal had proposed in the Monday's secretariat meeting to make secretariat member Gautam HoR member by holding by-election in Kathmandu-7.
Dahal had claimed that he, Gautam and elected lawmaker from the constituency Manandhar have already agreed to that regard.
Manandhar was elected with 18,102 votes from Kathmandu-7 in the last election. RPP's Bikram Thapa had received 10,079 votes with support of Nepali Congress (NC).
Gautam has been demanding he be brought to the HoR in almost all the secretariat meetings claiming that he was victim of betrayal by the then CPN-UML leaders and cadres in the general election. He had lost to Sanjay Kumar Gautam of NC by 753 votes in Bardiya-1 despite the alliance of UML with the then CPN (Maoist Center).
There were efforts to get him elected from Dolpa earlier but cadres put pressure on the elected lawmaker Dhan Bahadur Buda to not resign. Gautam also did not insist stating that he does not even know leaders and cadres of Dolpa.
A Baluwatar source claims Manandhar has demanded with Dahal and Gautam that he should be elected to the National Assembly and made minister.
