Provincial lawmakers and local government officials in the Bagmati province who are close to the Madhav Kumar Nepal-led faction of the ruling CPN-UML are highly likely to vote against the party's official candidate Ram Bahadur Thapa in the National Assembly by-election to be held on May 20.
The National Assembly Secretariat says Ram Bahadur Thapa, who was elected to the assembly representing the CPN-Maoist Centre in 2017, has lost his membership as the party that he represented removed him.
