Rastriya Prajatantra Party

Rastriya Prajatantra Party राष्ट्रिय प्रजातन्त्र पार्टी
Leader	Pashupati SJB Rana
Founded	1990
Ideology	Nationalism, Democracy, Liberalism
International affiliation	Asia Pacific Democrat Union
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Website
http://www.rppnepal.org/
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The Rastriya Prajatantra Party (National Democratic Party) is a Nepalese political party. It is a right-wing pro-monarchy party, formed out of the political elite of the erstwhile Panchayat system, formed on 1990, after reestablishment of democracy in Nepal.

In 1997 RPP split after the faction led by pro-monarchy politician Lokendra Bahadur Chand joined a coalition government with Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), with Chand as Prime Minister. The faction led by Surya Bahadur Thapa allied itself with Nepali Congress and toppled the UML-RPP government. Effectively RPP-Chand began to function as a separate party. In 1998 the RPP-Chand and RPP-Thapa were reunited, after both factions had fared badly in the elections that year.

In the 1999 legislative elections, the party won 10.4 % of the popular vote and 11 out of 205 seats.

At the third general convention of RPP, held in Pokhara December 2002, Thapa retired from his post as party chairman (which was mandatory according to the party constitution, as he had served two four-year terms). There were three candidates for the party chairmanship; the then general secretary Pashupati SJB Rana, the vice-chairman Dr. Prakash Chandra Lohani and the Central Committee Member Rabindra Nath Sharma. Rana was elected as the new chairman with 735 votes. Lohani got 321 votes and Sharma 135 votes. A new Central Working Committee was elected, consisting of Kamal Thapa, Jayanta Chand, Buddhiman Tamang, Surya Bahadur K.C., Jog Mehar Shrestha, Padma Sundar Lawati, Bikram Pandey Dhurba Bahadur Pradhan, Parsu Ram Khapung, Deepak Bohora, Balaram Gharti Magar, Jagat Gauchan, Khem Raj Pandit, Rajiv Parajuli, Govinda Raj Khaniya, Prem Bahadur Bhandar, Bhuwan Pathak and Narendra Kumar Chaudhary. The convention also elected a 64-member Central Committee.^[1][2]

The party split again in 2005 when Thapa broke away. His party is today registered as Rastriya Janashakti Party.

When the King dissolved parliament, he had appointed RPP leader Kamal Thapa as Home Minister. RPP then suffered another split, with Kamal Thapa forming his own RPP (which later became known as 'RPP Nepal').

In the 2008 election to the Constituent Assembly the party won 8 out of 601 seats.

References

1. ^ Nepalnews.com (newsflash) Arc551
2. ^ Nepalnews.com (newsflash) Arc554

External links

• Party website
• Info on the party from FES
• On the verge of split, article in Spotlight