Nepal's ex-president Bidya Devi Bhandari returns to active politics

KATHMANDU: Nepal's former president Bidya Devi Bhandari on Saturday announced that she has rejoined active politics by renewing her membership of the ruling CPN-UML, nearly a decade after she left the party to assume the country's top constitutional post.

Bhandari, 62, made the announcement while addressing a programme organised in Kathmandu by the Madan Bhandari Foundation to mark the 74th birth anniversary of her late husband and former Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) General Secretary Madan Bhandari.

“I have renewed my membership of CPN-UML with an objective of giving continuity to the party’s political journey,” Bhandari said at the function, which was also attended by Prime Minister K P Oli.