Former Nepal PM Baburam Bhattarai quits party

September 26, 2015 19:29

Baburam Bhattarai, Nepal's former prime minister and top Maoist leader sympathetic to Madhesis, today resigned as lawmaker and also quit the party to form his own political "force" amid differences with the major Nepalese political parties over the new Constitution. Bhattarai, a veteran leader of the Unified CPN-Maoist, was the senior-most leader after party chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal, popularly known as 'Prachanda'.

Bhattarai, who spent his years as a student at New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University and is said to have close links with India, has been sympathetic to the agitation launched by Madhesi parties demanding more rights and representation to the people residing in the southern plains of Nepal.

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