Raj Kumar Lekhi joined UML

KATHMANDU: OCT. 3 – Raj Kumar Lekhi, a leader of the Mahanta Thakur-led Democratic Socialist Party (LOSAPA), has joined the UML. Lekhi entered the party after receiving a tika from UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli.

Dozens of others, including Lekhi, a former president of the National Indigenous Federation and former general secretary of the Tharu Kalyankari Sabha, have joined the party, said Niru Jairu.

Lekhi, a former member of the Central Executive Committee of the People’s Socialist Party (JSP), had been saying that he would choose a party with similar views and sentiments. “In the meantime, I had talks with friends of the mainstream political parties,” Lekhi told Makalu Khabar. “After that, I decided to join the UML.”

He had reached the Godawari Conference Center in Lalitpur where the UML Legislative General Convention was being held. There, he entered the party after receiving a tika from Oli.