CPN (Unified Socialist) leader Ghanashyam Bhusal has been nominated secretariat member of the party.

A secretariat meeting of the party held on Saturday morning nominated Bhusal, according to secretariat member Prakash Jwala.

The secretariat of the party now has 12 members with the nomination of Bhusal. Chairman Madhav Kumar Nepal, leaders Jhala Nath Khanal, Mukunda Neupane, Rajendra Pandey, Pramesh Hamal, Jayanti Rai, Beduram Bhusal, Prakash Jwala, Mangal Lal Tuladhar, Bijaya Poudel, Ghanashyam Bhusal and Jagannath Khatiwada are in the party’s secretariat.

Former UML leader Bhusal joined Unified Socialist on Friday 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.