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Maoist lawmaker resigns
KATHMANDU, AUG 18 -
UCPN (Maoist) lawmaker Ram Kumar Sharma resigned his membership of the Constituent Assembly (CA) on Wednesday in the wake of the Tarai Madhes Loktantrik Party (TMLP) decision to annul his CA membership.
Sharma’s resignation comes a day after the TMLP sent a letter to Speaker Subas Nembang detailing the party’s decision to take “disciplinary action” against Sharma.
Elected from Mahottari-4 in the CA elections in April 2008, Sharma had announced his defection from the party last year.
“I cannot stick on as a lawmaker as a political case has been brought up against me,” Sharma said after submitting his resignation to Nembang. “With my resignation, a by-election will be held in my constituency and I will contest the polls,” he added.
The Maoist lawmaker drew public attention early this month after he accused an Indian Embassy official of issuing death threats and threatening that his daughter would be expelled from Kendriya Vidyalaya, run by the Indian government in Kathmandu, where she has been studying. Sharma said the Indian official threatened him for lobbying for Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal in the prime ministerial election.
Though the Indian Embassy has refuted the allegation, the Maoist party has submitted a protest letter demanding an apology from the Indian government and expulsion of the said official, Subrata Das.
In the resignation letter, Sharma said the threat to him is clear proof of “Indian intervention” in Nepal’s politics. He also claimed that India has played a role in the TMLP’s decision to scrap his CA membership.
Posted on: 2010-08-19 08:08
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