The leader of Myanmar's ruling party has been removed from his post, an official said Thursday, after a shock police swoop on party headquarters that laid bare a power struggle among the country's key political players ahead of elections, AFP reports.
The ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) has been gripped by in-fighting in the run up to the November polls, billed as the freest and fairest for decades in the former-junta ruled nation.