Ex-minister Jitendra Narayan Dev quits UML
Summary
Ex-minister Jitendra Narayan Dev resigns from CPN-UML, criticizing the party's handling of the September Gen Z protests and internal governance.
Key Points
- Jitendra Narayan Dev has resigned from the CPN-UML party.
- Dev criticized the party for misinterpreting the September Gen Z protests as a foreign conspiracy.
- He accused the party of promoting personality cults and running arbitrarily and discriminatively.
- Dev has a long political career including roles as a minister and National Assembly member, and recently joined UML in July 2023 after leaving Nepali Congress.