Former Nepal Police IGP Sarbendra Khanal called Socialist Party Nepal lawmaker and former minister of state for health Surendra Yadav Wednesday evening.
"Where are you dear minister? I have come to Janakpur. Let's meet once," Khanal told Yadav an old acquaintance. Khanal had already found out Yadav's location asking the latter's personal security officer (PEO).
Khanal went to meet Yadav soon after he agreed accompanied by lawmaker and former minister Mahesh Basnet, Oli's confidant, and another lawmaker Kisan Shrestha.
Yadav talked with them. "PM has asked us to bring you to make you a full minister. Let's go to Kathmandu. We will talk the remaining things there," Basnet said in a while.
Yadav was taken aback. He went into the bathroom and called a party leader saying men have arrived to take him to Kathmandu.
Socialist leaders immediately tweeted that Yadav has been abducted by the police.
Khanal and Basnet then moved toward Kathmandu with Yadav in their vehicle. Basnet made Yadav talk with PM KP Sharma Oli while on the way. "Basnet gave me the phone. PM said, 'You come to Kathmandu. You will now become a minister. Don't take tension about other things,'" Socialist leader Bishwodeep Pandey told Setopati quoting Yadav. "Every arrangements for you has been made in Kathmandu. Do come to Baluwatar at around eight in the morning. We will talk more. You will now have to play a good role," Pandey quoted Oli as telling Yadav.
Basnet and former IGP Khanal dropped Yadav at Kathmandu Marriott Hotel at around three Thursday morning. They went to their respective homes keeping Yadav and a PSO at room number 703 of the hotel.
Other Socialist lawmakers wishing to split the party were also in the hotel. Yadav immediately texted Pandey from the hotel revealing that he has been kept at room number 703 of the hotel. "He sent an SMS to me after reaching the hotel and said, 'Fifteen other rooms are also booked here. You come somewhere nearby in the morning I will come out,'" Pandey relayed.
Pandey called Yadav in the morning and agreed to meet outside the hotel. 'You arrange stuffs. I will go out for morning walk," Yadav then told his PSO.
"We brought him in our vehicle at that time," Pandey said. "He relayed everything from what happened in Jankapur till arriving here."
He said Yadav has been kept at a secret and safe place now.
PM Oli's plot to split Socialist Party fizzled out after Yadav fled. He had sent his confidant Basnet to bring Yadav using Ex-IGP after only six lawmakers agreed to split Socialist Party.
Many lawmakers, who had agreed to split the party, were also reluctant after Yadav fled. Renu Yadav who led to split the party and Mohammad Ishtiaq Rai also had to eventually step back.
