Rajendra Prasad Shrestha has been assigned as the Acting Chairman of Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP) Nepal.

A meeting of the party’s executive committee held on Saturday named Shrestha as the Acting Chairman as JSP Nepal Chairman Upendra Yadav is leaving here for India, the party’s publicity department chief Purna Basnet said.

It is said that Chairman Yadav is likely to meet political leaders in India.

Chairman Yadav is scheduled to stay in India until September 7 where he is attending a wedding ceremony. Yadav is going to Kerala from New Delhi.

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