{"id":47997,"date":"2026-05-18T18:14:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=47997"},"modified":"2026-05-18T18:14:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:29:55","slug":"uml-renews-former-president-bhandaris-party-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/uml-renews-former-president-bhandaris-party-membership\/","title":{"rendered":"UML Renews Former President Bhandari\u2019s Party Membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, May 18: The Communist Party of Nepal (UML) has decided to renew the party membership of former President Bidya Devi Bhandari.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was taken at a Secretariat meeting held on Monday, Deputy General Secretary Lekharaj Bhatta said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, UML Chairman K. P. Sharma Oli had suspended the renewal of Bhandari\u2019s membership. The party moved to renew her membership following UML\u2019s disappointing electoral performance.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the electoral setback suffered by leftist forces, reports have also surfaced of ongoing discussions for left unity under Bhandari\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, May 18: The Communist Party of Nepal (UML) has decided to renew the party membership of former President Bidya Devi Bhandari. The decision was taken at a Secretariat meeting held on Monday, Deputy General Secretary Lekharaj Bhatta said. Earlier, UML Chairman K. P. Sharma Oli had suspended the renewal of Bhandari\u2019s membership. The party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47998,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47997\/revisions\/47998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}