Rastriya Janashakti Party
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Rastriya Janashakti Party
राष्ट्रिय जनशक्ति पार्टी |
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| President | Surya Bahadur Thapa |
| Secretary-General | Keshar Bahadur Bista |
| Founded | 2005 |
| Headquarters | Kathmandu |
| Students wing | Rastriya Janashakti Student Union |
| Women wing | Rastriya Janashakti Mahila Sangh |
| Ideology | Liberalism |
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Rastriya Janashakti Party is a liberal political party in Nepal, led by former Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa. Thapa had split away from the Rastriya Prajatantra Party in November 2004. The party is registered with the Election Commission of Nepal in March 2005.
The party is led by a Central Working Committee. Thapa is the chairman of the party.Prakash Chandra Lohani is the vice chairman of the party.
RJP emerged from a split in the Rastriya Prajatantra Party, as Thapa left RPP on November 4, 2004. Thapa had been a founder of RPP in 1990. On November 19, 2004, Thapa and his followers opened a 'contact office' in Balutwar, Kathmandu, to organise a broad political conference and coordinate the construction of a new party. On December 27, 2004 the group formed a 320-member organising committee for the holding of the conference of the new party. Thapa was chairman of the committee, Lohani vice chairman and Buddhiman Tamang secretary. Other prominent members of the committee were Kamal Thapa, Hari Bahadur Basnet, Sarvendra Nath Sukla and Renu Kumari Yadav.
Kamal Thapa left the committee in January 2005.
The RJP was founded on March 13, 2005. The 'broad political conference' was, however, postponed due to the imposition of Emergency rule by King Gyanendra on February 1, 2005.
RJP had expressed differences with King Gyanendra after the February 1, 2005 coup, over issues like political appointments in the local administrations. RJP accused the King of eliminating the forces working for constitutional monarchy, through his political actions. At the time, RJP tried to profile itself as a centrist party, in between positions advocating direct monarchical rule and republic.
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