Mukunda Neupane quits Unified Socialist, will return to UML

Senior CPN (Unified Socialist) leader Mukunda Neupane has quit the party.

He declared his withdrawal from the party holding a press conference in Kathmandu on Saturday.

Addressing the press meet, Neupane said the party is trapped in the quagmire of the ruling coalition, accusing the party leadership of being guided by closed-door deals rather than taking decisions from the meetings of the party committees.

“It is more important to live as a respectable citizen than to be a leader of a party that has no future,” he said.

Neupane said that he will return to mother party, CPN-UML. He said that many cadres of Unified Socialist across the country are ready to join UML.

He also claimed that respected leader Jhalnath Khanal will return to UML if an honorable post is given to him.