Leaders of Socialist Party Nepal will lodge police complaint against abduction of its lawmaker and former state minister Surendra Yadav.
Chairmen duo Baburam Bhattarai and Upendra Yadav will go to Teku shortly to lodge police complaint claiming that former Nepal Police IGP Sarbendra Khanal, and CPN lawmakers Mahesh Basnet and Kisan Shrestha had abducted Surendra Yadav on Wednesday, according to a party source.
Khanal, Basnet and Shrestha had brought Yadav from Janakpur to Kathmandu on Wednesday in what was accused by the party as abduction. Ex-IGP Khanal and former minister Basnet have claimed that they only facilitated arrival of Yadav to Kathmandu as per his plan.
Yadav was brought to Kathmandu at three Thursday morning and kept at Kathmandu Marriott Hotel with an intention to split Socialist Party with seven lawmakers. But Yadav absconded a few hours later to foil the plan seemingly engineered by Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli who had brought an ordinance on Monday making it easier to split political parties.
The rebel faction could not muster the necessary 40 percent in parliamentary party after Yadav absconded.
