KATHMANDU: Madhesi Janaadhikar Forum led by Upendra Yadav on Saturday organised a protest rally in the capital against, what it said, the ‘unconstitutional, immoral and anti democratic’ move of Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal to appoint its parliamentary party leader Bijay Kumar Gachhadar as deputy prime minister without taking the party’s consent.

The rally started from the party office in Shankhamul and ended in New Baneshwor intersection where the party cadres burnt an effigy of PM Nepal.

“We will organise torch rallies tomorrow in the Tarai to protest the act of the PM and other bigger parties, which undermined the democratic practice and the Madhesi movement by appointing Gachhadar as the deputy prime minister,” said MJF leader Ram Sahaya Prasad Yadav.

He added that they would organise a bandh on Monday in the Tarai areas. Other protest programmes will be made public later, Yadav added.

The group led by Chairman Upendra Yadav had expelled seven leaders, including parliamentary party leader Gachhadar yesterday accusing them of indulging in anti-party activities.

The party was split into two groups yesterday, one led by Yadav and the other by Gachhadar, following the appointment of Gachhadar as deputy prime minister on Thursday.

The Yadav group also announced withdrawal of its support to the CPN-UML-led government on Friday.