Bhandari’s Activism Ruffles Feathers

Should former presidents and vice presidents join politics after serving in the highest positions of the country? This question has come to the fore after former vice-president Nanda Bahadur Pun was appointed as the vice-president of the CPN-Maoist Centre and former president Bidya Devi Bhandari is set to join the CPN-UML. Bhandari, who was elected as president twice in 2015 and 2017, renewed her party membership last year and has been busy in a flurry of its activities, much to the surprise of its top brass.