KATHMANDU, JULY 17

After reinstatement of the dissolved House of Representatives (HoR), at least four lawmakers from Thakur faction of the Janata Samajbadi Party-Nepal (JSP-N) have switched sides to Upendra Yadav's camp.

Parliamentarians Pramod Shah, Amrita Agrahari, Rani Mandal and Narmaya Dhakal were present in a meeting held at Balkumari-based party office.

According to sources, the same party members were absent in the meeting held yesterday in the party office.

Following the recent political development, both factions of the JSP-N will have 16 members each representing them in the lower house.

Earlier, Upendra Yadav led faction of the JSP-N, on the basis of majority in the executive committee, had removed co-chair Mahanta Thakur and four other leaders from the party.

In retaliation, Thakur had sacked Upendra Yadav as the serving chairman of the central committee of the Samajbadi Party, Nepal.

The at-odds groups had approached the commission requesting it to take note of the actions.

However, the EC, stating that there were not adequate legal grounds or facts that supporter either of the groups' claims, rejected to approve of the request to update the records.