Kathmandu, June 8 -- The CPN (Unified Socialist) has started consultations with lawyers on how to move forward in the context of the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) filing a corruption case against party chairman Madhav Kumar Nepal on a land scam.

Former prime minister Nepal was suspended as lawmaker immediately after the anti-graft body filed the corruption case against him at the Special Court on Thursday accusing him of involvement in the Patanjali land scam.

His suspension as an MP means he can no longer hold the parliamentary party leader position.

Many people were wondering if Nepal would voluntarily leave the party chair until the court verdict on moral grounds as he has been chargesheeted in a corrupti...