 In 2011, she and her husband and fellow Maoist politician, Raj Kumar Shrestha, were accused of overseeing Red sandalwood smuggling into Tibet through Nepal.In 2017, political violence days before local elections resulted in the murder of Kul Bahadur Tamang, son of CPN-UML candidate Gore Tamang, by Maoist-Centre cadres.Khadka claimed the Maoists were acting in self-defense.