KATHMANDU, Feb. 4 -- Former Vice President Nanda Bahadur Pun has officially re-entered active party politics, with the CPN (Maoist Center) assigning him a defined role within the party.

A meeting of the office bearers of the party on Monday decided to appoint Pun as the head of the party's body overseeing the production sector. However, there are speculations that Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal intends to elevate him to Vice Chairman to strengthen his position within the party.

A party office bearer stated that Pun has been given the responsibility of forming and leading the mechanism overseeing the production sector as per his own preference. Although the former Vice President had already started attending Maoist Center meetings, he had...