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.
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