The cancellation of their membership came into effect after Constituent Assembly (CA) Chairman Subas Nembang read out a notice to this effect during a CA meeting on Saturday. [break]
Earlier, the Parliamentary Business Advisory Committee had decided to cancel their membership as they were continuing their activity in the CPN (Maoist) party while the former Maoist party had already registered its new name -- UCPN (Maoist) -- in the Election Commission.
The two were elected CA members under the proportional representative seats by the Maoist party. They have already filed a case against the CA´s decision to cancel their membership in the Supreme Court.
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