KATHMANDU, Feb 8: Former Chairman of Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), Kamal Thapa quit the party on Tuesday.
Organizing a press conference at Hetauda, Thapa announced to separate from the RPP.
Addressing the conference, Thapa maintained that he had to quit the party because his voice was not being heard in the party.
Thapa had been accusing Former King Gyanendra of interfering in the election during the party’s general convention held earlier in Kathmandu. Thapa had also demanded investigation into the case.
After the newly elected Chairman Rajendra Lingden refused to conduct an investigation, Thapa made the move to quit the party.
Rajendra Lingden has been elected the Chairman of Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) by defeating Kamal Thapa. Lingden got 1,817 votes while his rival Thapa received 1,617 votes from the voting held Saturday, RPP leader Rajaram Shrestha told the RSS. It is shared that a total of 531 votes were declared invalid.
KATHMANDU: Defeating the incumbent Chairman Kamal Thapa in an election held on Saturday during the party’s unity general convention with a margin of 227 votes, Rajendra Lingden has been elected the chairman of right-wing Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP).
Lingden, the only lawmaker of the party in the federal parliament, secured as many as 1,844 votes out of 3,873 total votes. His contender, Thapa managed to win 1,617 votes, according to Hari Bahadur Basnet, party’s election officer. As many as 431 votes were declared invalid.
With this, Lingden will take charge of the party for the next four years.
KATHMANDU: Kamal Thapa and Rajendra Lingden have filed their candidacy for the position of Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) chairman.
Thapa, who is serving as one of three chairmen of the party and Lingden, on Friday, registered their candidacy. Both of them were accompanied by their supporters as they reached the City Hall at the Exhibition Road in the capital.
According to a member of the party’s election committee, Dipak Bohora proposed Thapa as the party chairman. Similarly, Niranjan Thapa seconded the proposal.
While Ramanand proposed Lingden’s candidacy, Bikash Bahadur Mahat seconded him as the new chair to lead the party for the next four years.
Likewise, Buddhiman Tamang, Bikram Pandey, Dhruba Bahadur Pradhan and Roshan Karki have been fielded as the candidates for vice-chair from the Thapa panel. The rival faction, on the other hand, fielded Bikram Pandey, Dil Bikash Rajbhandari, Ram Chandra Raya and Lila Shrestha as vice-chair candidates. Pandey has been nominated as the candidate for the vice-chair position by both panels.
Bhuwan Pathan, Bhaskar Bhadra and Kunti Shahi are in the fray for the position of general secretary from the Thapa faction. Similarly, Dr Dhawal Shumsher Rana, Shyam Timilsina and Rekha Thapa registered their candidacy for the general secretarial position from the Lingden faction. While Rana is serving as the mayor of Nepalgunj sub-metropolitan city, Thapa is a renowned actress in the Nepalis movie industry.
The right-wing party has been holding its first unity general convention in the capital since Wednesday.
KATHMANDU: Rajendra Lingden, General Secretary of Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), who is also a member of the House of Representatives (HoR), has announced his candidacy for the party’s chairman.
Organizing a press conference in the capital on Thursday, a key leader of the party Dhawal Shumsher Rana announced that Lingden will vie for the senior most executive position in the party during the party’s general convention.
The only lawmaker of the party in the federal parliament, Lingden will now contest the election with party Chairman Kamal Thapa.
On the occasion, Lingden said that he would emerge victorious in the convention as party cadres are ‘fed up with’ incumbent Chairman Thapa.
RPP is holding its general convention in the capital from December 1 to 3.
