Nepal’s ruling CPN-UML has blocked former president Bidya Devi Bhandari’s bid to re-enter lively politics, saying it will be inappropriate for a former head of state to have interaction in a partisan function.
During a gathering of the CPN-UML’s Central Committee, the party additionally endorsed the proposed statute modification – handed by the party’s Secretariat and Politburo – to take away the age restrict of 70 years and the two-term cap for management.
With this modification, 74-year-old Prime Minister and CPN-UML chairman Ok.P. Sharma Oli, who’s serving his second time period as party chairman, can proceed to serve the party in his place.
Ms. Bhandari’s determination to rejoin party politics was anticipated as a problem to Mr. Oli, who has been elected because the party’s chairman twice. He is planning to contest for the publish of the party’s chairperson for the third time.
Briefing the media, the party’s General Secretary Shanker Pokharel mentioned on Wednesday (July 23, 2025) that Ms. Bhandari’s common membership of the party has develop into ineffective because the central committee made the choice in direction of that route.
“The central committee has concluded that it is not appropriate for the former president to return to party politics,” Mr. Pokharel mentioned.
Ms. Bhandari, who retired as president on March 12, 2023, just lately mentioned that she was keen to re-enter party politics.
