Kathmandu, February 13

Chair of Federal Socialist Forum-Nepal Upendra Yadav left for Hong Kong today to attend a programme to be organised in memory of country’s first martyr Lakhan Thapa Magar.

The programme would be organised by Nepal Federation of Indigenous Naitonalities, Hong Kong. Yadav is scheduled to return to Kathmandu on February 16. Lakhan Thapa Magar was killed in 1877 for revolting against the autocratic Rana regime.

Yadav has currently drawn ire in his party for his decision to expel two the Central Committee members – Rizwan Ansari and Raj Kumar Yadav — for acting against the party’s interests and policies.