Former CPN-UML leader Ghanashyam Bhusal joined the CPN (Unified Socialist) on Friday.

Bhusal entered the party amid a ‘self-announcement programme’ organised at a hotel in the Capital.

Bhusal has argued that he chose the Unified Socialist as the party, which according to him, has adopted the right political line.

Prior to the November elections, Bhusal had quit the CPN-UML when denied the electoral ticket in Rupandehi-1. He contested the polls as an independent candidate but lost to UML’s Chhabilal Bishwakarma.

Bhusal was elected to the House of Representatives from Rupandehi-3 in the 2017 elections but was denied a ticket this time by UML chair KP Sharma Oli.

He was the UML’s deputy general secretary. He also served as the Agriculture minister in the Oli-led Cabinet in 2019.