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Madheshi People’s Rights Forum in Disarray
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
Out of 52 members of the Parliamentary Party of Madheshi People’s Rights Forum (MPRF), a group of 35 members claiming the two-third majority submitted a petition to the Prime Minister for sending back the four ministers such as Foreign Minister Upendra Yadav, Minister for Physical Planning Bijaya Kumar Gacchadar, Education Minister Renu Yadav, and Minister Jaya Prakash Prasad Gupta, as they did not follow the party line.
The young emerging leader of the MPRF in a press conference told the reporters that the four ministers seconded by the MPRF had been deviating from the MPRF party policy line, and speaking against the autonomy of Madhesh, and they were not representing all districts, too. He also said that they decided to remove Gacchadar from the parliamentary leader of the MPRF parliamentary party and the Chief whip of his party Ram Janam Chaudhary from the office, and informed the Chairman of the Constituent Assembly about it. However, another member of the MPRF parliamentary party Sharad Singh Bhandari said that their decision was not valid.
On January 07, 2009, the Parliamentary Party meeting of MPRF held in its office in Kathmandu after the heated discussion on these matters decided to suspended the decisions made by the group of the 35 dissident members of the Parliamentary Party.
