UML has decided not to allow former president Bidya Bhandari to enter the upcoming legislative convention. Bhandari, who has announced that she will enter party politics, is going to be barred from entering the legislative convention to be held in Kathmandu on August 20-22.

In the first week of July, the UML Central Committee meeting had kept Bhandari's membership renewal 'pending' and banned the party from entering politics. UML has said that since he is not a convention representative, there is no basis for him to participate in the legislative convention. "There is no provision in the constitution to invite former president Vidya Bhandari to the legislative convention," UML propaganda department chief Rajendra Gautam said.

UML president KP Sharma Oli has argued that since Bhandari resigned as president after being elected president in November 2072, he should take new membership. "Now there is an allegation that the membership of the former president has been revoked." "He gave up membership when he became the president," Oli said on Friday, "It is not right to bend the staff and take the receipts at the place where the receipts are cut." Former President Bhandari has been claiming that her membership has been renewed. Bhandari, starting a liaison office in Thapagaon on Thursday, objected to the party central office raising questions about her membership. I have a question about my membership. Friends say that Chasal has raised the question within the organized members of the party . CPN-UML has now become, I have been a member of CPN-UML ever since. I have subscribed in the year 2037 . It has been 45 years', she said, 'When the president took the oath, he had been a member of UML for 35 years .'

A leader of the Bhandari party commented that it was wrong to bar the former president, who was honored by the party for his 'Ganantra Gaurav', in the Legislative Assembly. UML honored former President Bhandari with 'Ganatantra Gaurav' last year .

The leaders who wrote a 'note of dissent' on the Central Committee's decision to keep former President Bhandari's membership renewal 'pending' and ban him from active politics have said they will keep their vote even until the legislative convention.

In the organizational report prepared by the political and general secretary Shankar Pokharel to be brought under the leadership of President Oli, there is a proposal to stop former president Bhandari and they are also prepared to hold a different opinion. After Bhandari was banned from active politics, Vice Presidents Yuvraj Gyawali, Surendra Pandey and Standing Committee member Karn Thapa wrote a 'Note of Dissent' in the Central Committee meeting. Senior Vice President Ishwar Pokharel publicly opposed the decision.

Gyawali and Pandey have filed a petition at the Central Office for not sending a 'Note of Dissent' to the Inter-Party Directive (APANI). Vice President Gyawali has objected that only the party's decision has been sent that the dissenting vote should be taken to the floor along with the legislative draft. "Our different opinion should have been sent to the lower committees along with the legislative draft," he said, "we will take our different opinion through the next standing, central committee to the convention". He says, 'What would have gone wrong if we had allowed a debate about Vidya Bhandari within the party? Dissatisfaction has increased due to the ban on speaking.

Head of Publicity Department Gautam argued that the issue of controversy was not mentioned as only instructions from the party were sent to Apanima. "Only the official decision is sent," he said, "if there is a difference of opinion, the leaders can put it in their respective committees." "Building decisive national power is our resolution: prosperous Nepal and a happy Nepali national destination" is the main slogan of the UML Legislative Congress.