Kathmandu, July 26 -- Three days after CPN-UML central committee prevented former President Bidya Devi Bhandari from rejoining the party, she declared on Friday that "no one can snatch my party membership".

Bhandari harbours a desire to become the UML chairman by challenging the incumbent KP Sharma Oli, who is also the prime minister. She held a press conference on Friday and expressed her dissatisfaction with the decision taken by the UML's central committee.

Bhandari, a former vice-chair of the UML, became the country's president. She is the spouse of the late Madan Bhandari, the chief ideologue of the UML who died mysteriously in a car accident in 1993.

A recent central committee meeting of the UML decided not to renew her party mem...