Pramod Sah, a former lawmaker and Janata Samajbadi Party-Nepal leader, has joined the CPN (Maoist Centre).

He announced joining the new party at a public gathering in Malangawa, Sarlahi, as top Maoist leaders reached there as part of the party’s political campaign.

Sah, elected as a lawmaker from Sarlahi constituency number 1 in the 2017 elections, was welcomed into the Maoist Centre by chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal.

In his address, Sah said he chose the Maoist Centre ‘for its pivotal role in establishing a federal democratic republic by dismantling the 240-year-old monarchy’. Along with him, many leaders and cadres from JSP-Nepal and other parties also joined the Maoist Centre.