This is poll season and party-hopping is rife

Quitting one party to join another is not unusual but an upward trend points to rise of opportunism, observers say.

Prem Bahadur Singh started his politics from the Nepal Majdoor Kisan Party in Kalikot district during the Panchayat period. He was considered an influential leader in the party representing Karnali. After the restoration of democracy in 1990, Singh quit the party to join the CPN-UML. He was a National Assembly member from the UML in 1991. In the 1999 general elections he won a House of Representatives seat from Kalikot on the UML’s ticket.