Rashtriya Prajatantra Party

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Rashtriya Prajatantra Party




Leader	Pashupati SJB Rana

Founded
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Political ideology	Royalism
International affiliation	Asia Pacific Democrat Union

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The Rashtriya 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.

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 and RPP-Thapa functioned as two separate parties. In 1998 the RPP-Chand and RPP-Thapa were reunited, after both factions had fared badly in the elections that year. At the last legislative elections, the party won 10.4 % of the popular vote and 11 out of 205 seats.

The party split again in 2005 when Thapa broke away. His party is today registered as Rashtriya Janashakti Party. The Rashtriya Janashakti Party has more moderate personalities than the RPP.

When the King dissolved parliament, he had appointed RPP leader Kamal Thapa as Prime Minister. RPP then suffered another split, with Kamal Thapa forming his own RPP.

The current President of the party is Pashupati SJB Rana.