CPN (Maoist Center) Madhesh Province Parliamentary Party (PP) leader Bharat Prasad Sah has resigned from his post.
Shah, who is also a former minister of Madhesh Province, submitted his resignation to Maoist Center Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Prachanda) on Monday, as informed by a provincial assembly member of the Maoist Center.
According to sources, serious allegations of sexual misconduct were leveled against Sah, leading to increasing pressure on him to resign.
Although the Maoist Center's elected provincial assembly members and party leaders had been pressuring him to step down, Shah had been refusing to do so. However, as the pressure on the party intensified, Prachanda himself directed him to resign.
Even before this, a majority of the assembly members had been raising voices to remove Shah from the leadership position. In the absence of pressure from the central leadership, he had been avoiding resignation.
After his own assembly members began raising questions against him, Shah had not called a parliamentary party meeting for the past 10 months.
Sah, who was elected from Mahottari Constituency-1 (Province Assembly 'B'), resigned as the parliamentary party leader, sparking a race among the assembly members to become the new leader of the Maoist Center in the Madhesh Province Assembly.
Currently, Yubaraj Bhattarai (Samir), elected from Rautahat, is the deputy leader of the Maoist Madhesh Province Parliamentary Party.
According to sources, leader Bhattarai and assembly member Jawahar Kushwaha, elected from Sarlahi-3 (A), are the main contenders for post of the parliamentary party leadership.
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