Deputy Prime Minister and MPRF parliamentary party leader Bijay Kumar Gachchhadar wrote to the prime minister to sack Sah as Sah recently quit MPRF and formed a new political party -- Madhesi Kranti Forum. Gachchhadar is Minister for Physical Planning and Works.[break]
"The prime minister today [Sunday] relieved Sah of the post on the recommendation of MPRF leader Gachchhadar," the prime minister´s press advisor Bishnu Rijal told Republica.
Sah was elected Constituent Assembly (CA) member from Dhanusha-4 in 2008. According to MPRF chief whip Ramjanam Chaudhari, the party is also planning to expel Sah as CA member.
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