SC orders EC not to implement its decision on RPP election symbol row
KATHMANDU, July 26: The Supreme Court (SC) has directed the Election Commission (EC) to not immediately implement its decision to deny the Kamal Thapa-led Rastriya Prajatantra party, Nepal the election symbol of cow.
HETAUDA: Chairman of RPP Nepal, Kamal Thapa, who contested the House of Representatives election with the CPN-UML election symbol “sun”, has conceded his defeat. Mahalakshmi Upadhyay (Dina) of Nepali Congress, who contested the election from Makwanpur Constituency-1, is leading. She has garnered 20,970 votes while Thapa got 19,918 votes. Taking to social media, Thapa said […]
KATHMANDU: The Supreme Court (SC) has directed the Election Commission (EC) to not immediately implement its decision to deny the Kamal Thapa-led Rastirya Prajatantra Party Nepal (RPP-N) the election symbol of cow. A division bench of Justices Dr Anandamohan Bhattarai and Dr Kumar Chudal issued an interim order not to provide the Cow as the […]
KATHMANDU: KP Oli-led CPN-UML and Kamal Thapa-led Rashtriya Prajatantra Party Nepal (RPP Nepal) have agreed to form an electoral alliance and contest under UML’s election symbol the ‘Sun’. In a program organized at UML’s Thapathali-based central office, the top leaders of CPN-UML and RPP Nepal Chairman Thapa agreed to form an alliance and contest together […]
KATHMANDU, April 13: The CPN-UML and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal led by Kamal Thapa have agreed to forge an electoral alliance in the upcoming local level election.
KATHMANDU, April 13: The main opposition party, CPN-UML, and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), Nepal have agreed that the RPP Nepal will contest in local polls using UML’s election symbol.
The two parties have also maintained that if those RPP leaders contesting using UML’s election symbol win the election, they will still be in the RPP Nepal.
The two parties will also forge an election alliance in upcoming local elections scheduled on May 10.
The meeting held between the two parties on Wednesday was attended by Chairman of RPP Nepal, Kamal Thapa and Vice-Chairman of UML, Vishnu Poudel and General Secretary Shankar Pokharel.
KATHMANDU, March 23: Ahead of local level polls, the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP)-led by Rajendra Lindden and the Bibeksheel Sajha Party-led by Rabindra Mishra are preparing to unite.
The two parties have been holding a series of meetings on this regard for the past few weeks, according to Bhuvan Phatak, the general secretary of RPP. “So far, the discussions are positive.”
According to a high-level RPP source, two parties are set to announce the unification soon. However, the parties are yet to finalize the name for the new party.
The RPP has suggested keeping RPP as the name of the new party after unification while the Bibeksheel Sajha Party has suggested RPP Sajha or Sajha RPP.
Even Though, Mishra has agreed to have plough as an election symbol, he has demanded a figure of beam balance in the party's flag.
KATHMANDU, Aug. 21: The Supreme Court (SC) has issued an interim order in the name of Election Commission (EC) to register the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (Democratic) without implementing its earlier decision to re-verify the signature of the leaders.
