Bitterness is increasing between former very close colleagues Prime Minister and UML President KP Sharma Oli and former President and former Vice President Bidya Devi Bhandari. After Bhandari announced that he will join the active politics of UML, the two leaders have started to spill out in public.

Bhandari, who renewed her membership last year, announced that she would join active UML politics on June 14 on the occasion of 'Madan Jayanti'. After he said that he was active for the party leadership, UML President Oli has been digging against him.

His membership has been suspended by the Central Committee. Acrimony has grown to such an extent that it is forbidden to comment on Vidya's membership in state and district committees. Bhandari was furious after the Central Committee meeting on July 5 and 6 kept Bhandari's membership 'pending'. In the central committee meeting, Oli announced the decision that the former president should not enter into active politics.

Bhandari held a press conference on July 8 and said that she could not cancel her membership as she had already renewed it. But his membership renewal dispute is still ongoing. On Friday, Prime Minister Oli accused Bhandari of renewing membership by persuading party central office staff.

After Bhandari inaugurated a liaison office in Thapagaon, Kathmandu on Thursday to celebrate 'Madan Bhandari's 75th birth anniversary', Oli became more angry. At the central office on Friday, he said that Bhandari has abandoned his membership.

President Oli in an event held at the party office Chasal on Friday.

'Now there are accusations that the membership of the former president has been revoked . He renounced the membership when he became president. You have to give up and become the president . He left the membership and went to become the president," he said. "It is not right to bend the staff and take receipts at the receipt cutting place. Abandoned memberships will not be renewed . If someone does not have a subscription, it will be renewed and ?’ 

Former President Bhandari argued that if he liked the membership, he should have refused the presidency right away . He was accused of disobeying the party by gathering disaffected people of the party. 

"I shouldn't have gone to be the president at that time because my membership is dear," he said, "If I want to renew my membership, I should have talked to the party." He has not spoken at the party. Not in the process of signing up for a new subscription. The party made the president two times, the party did not even imagine that he would come back and create problems in the party.' 

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Oli also objected to Bhandari opening a liaison office. He should come and help the party, strengthen unity. "You are gathering people who are dissatisfied with the party," he asked, "should the party office be opened from now to celebrate the birthday of Janata Party leader Madan Bhandari next year?" Will you be active against the party by opening an office from now on?' 

Starting the liaison office in Thapagaon on August 5, Bhandari objected to the central office raising questions about her membership. friends say leader . Organized members of the party have raised the question, this chassel  . CPN-UML is now, I have been a member since CPN-UML. I have subscribed in the year 2037 . "It has been 45 years," she said, "It had been 35 years since he was a member of CPN-UML at the time of taking the oath of the President." The party has to take a special decision and said. I went and took an oath .' 

Mentioning that she has worked in a dignified manner as the president, she committed to continue working as a worker of UML . "I have done the role of the president of this country in a very dignified manner and in a way that will increase the pride of the nation." "All these pages of history are open," she said, "I have said publicly, I am not beyond criticism." But it should be based on facts . I want to continue working as a worker of CPN-UML . I'll keep doing it .' 

In the midnight of July 6, the Central Committee decided that "constitutionality and fairness should be questioned, democratic values ​​are weakened, and the person's own respectable personality should not be practiced". Three days later, in a press conference, Bhandari claimed that no one can take away her membership.

'I have already renewed my membership in UML . I am still affiliated with the UML,' she said, 'It has been 45 years since I joined the party.... No one can take away my membership.'

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'People's leader Madan Bhandari brought the people's multi-party democracy program to make a prosperous Nepal, a happy Nepali. We have to organize the program according to its ideals," she said, "since the party membership has been renewed, there is no reason to dispute it".

UML Central Committee's decision to stop Bhandari

On July 5 and 6, the Central Committee decided that former President Bhandari should not enter active politics. Since the role of the President is highly respected, dignified and historically important, it was decided that he should not return to politics because the decision to return to party politics was not compatible with the spirit of the Constitution.

Oli's sarcasm, Bhandari's counter

'This meeting of the Central Committee decides that the subject of returning to party politics by a person who has reached high constitutional positions such as the constitutional president and vice president is not compatible with the spirit of the constitution, it raises questions about the constitutionality and fairness of the work done while in office, weakens democratic values ​​and makes the respected personality of the person controversial,' the decision of UML states, 'This is the institution of the presidency. The Constitution of Nepal provides that a person who is elected to that responsibility, keeping in mind the dignified position, will be completely freed from his party or other institutional affiliations and will remain in an impartial role and work within the constitutional limits while in office.' 

UML mentioned that 'former President Bidya Devi Bhandari is a respected name in Nepali politics and praised her for doing justice and excellent work in the central leadership of the party and in the position of Vice President or Honorable President in a dignified manner.

On June 14 Madan Jayanti, Oli and Bhandari were on the same stage . From the platform where Bhandari announced that she would join active politics. Oli said that it will not matter if Bhandari joins active politics. Some people have different hopes and expectations regarding the 74th birth anniversary of Madan Bhandari. "Here I explode bombs, Vidya Bhandariji explodes bombs, dangdang dungdung - they are sitting here dreaming that the UML will start to collapse," he objected, "No bombs, guns, ammo, shells are going to explode ." It happens if you don't wish . CPN (UML) is one, remains one, moves forward unitedly . What kind of hopes did you have? They have been waiting for .' 

After Oli walked away with his views, Bhandari said that she was proud to join the UML. The welfare of the country and the people is my aim and goal,' he said, 'Now I am rejoined as a member of the CPN (UML) family, and I am proud of it.' 

The strong support given to Bhandari by Oli

On June 3, 2050, while going from Pokhara to Chitwan, after the death of the then General Secretary of UML, Madan Bhandari, his wife Bhandari came into active politics. When he was in the minority in UML, Oli had been doing activities through 'Madan Bhandari Foundation'.

Although President Oli has been strongly supported since he became active in politics, the bitterness has been increasing recently.

She was the first central committee member from the sixth national convention of Bikram Samvat in January 2054, a central member again from the seventh convention of 2059, and the central vice president at the same time from the eighth convention of 2065. The Ninth Congress of 2071 again elected him as Vice-Chairman and Standing Committee Member.

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The then UML made for the vacant post after the death of Madan Bhandari. 2050 by-election Kathmandu Constituency No. She was elected as a member of the House of Representatives for the first time from 1. She was elected as a member of the House of Representatives three times consecutively from other areas of Kathmandu in the mid-term elections of 2051 and as a member of the House of Representatives in 2056.