Predawn power play rocks Madhesh

Province head Sumitra Subedi Bhandari dismissed hours after ‘secretly’ swearing in a new chief minister at a hotel.

In a dramatic turn of events, Madhesh Province Head Sumitra Subedi Bhandari, who left Janakpur for Kathmandu at 4 am on Monday citing health reasons, appointed CPN-UML leader Saroj Kumar Yadav as the new chief minister of Madhesh.