KATHMANDU, Feb 25: Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) Chair Kamal Thapa has asked the big political parties to review the achievements of federal republic and reassess the possibilities of restoration of monarchy in the country.

“Time has come to review the 12 years of period after the establishment of federal republic and rethink about the possibilities of revival of monarchy in the country,” said Chair Thapa at an interaction program organized by the Reporters’ Club Nepal on Tuesday.

“What have the country and the people achieved so far? Nothing… since the declaration of Nepal as secular state and abolishment of monarchy a decade ago,” added Thapa, who was known to have shared a quite good relationship with former King Gyanendra Shah.

Thapa was also the home minister of the Gyanendra appointed government following the suspension of parliament in February 2002. The King had suspended the parliament and forced martial law citing the civil politicians were unfit to handle the Maoist insurgency.

But the April uprising in 2006 following the 12-point historic and unprecedented agreement between the then CPN (Maoist) and the Seven Party Alliance, the King returned the power to the people and reinstated the House of Representatives—which later abrogated Nepal’s status and Hindu kingdom declaring the country as secular state and abolished the monarchy in 2007. The federal republic was established in May 2008 which formally ended the 240 year long royal rule in the country.

“Why is there no stability? Where is change? Why is there the voice of disintegration? Where did the new Maoist rebellion emerge from when he peace process should have ended?,” said Thapa.

“We had warned that the 12-point peace accord between the seven parties and Maoists was a bad omen.”

“Republic, secularism and federalism were established without informing the people. It is therefore, time is ripe now to review the achievement of the political change the uprising brought,” he added.

Thapa-led RPP has been lobbying for the restoration of Nepal has Hindu state and revival of monarchy. He recently submitted a 22-point demand paper to Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli, in which he has asked for a direct national referendum on federal republic. He however says that his voice is not for king but for a royal institution.

“The federal republic has only given birth to wrongs and corruption instead of realizing positive change. The new system has failed. Thus, now is time to revive kingdom in the country,” he said adding, “Our party demands a round-table discussion on these issues.”

Thapa further said that if the government fails to address the 22-point memorandum, the agitating party will launch people’s struggle from mid-March.

On the occasion, Thapa also asked the government to form a high-level investigation commission to probe into the assets of the politicians and bureaucrats since 1991.

He also underlined the need to nationalize the assets kept in foreign banks by Nepali nationals and immediately freeze bank accounts of those individuals suspected in money laundering, and called for taking legal against those found involved in illegal transactions.

He also urged the government collect all the taxes including the 38 billion capital gain tax due with the Ncell as per the order issued by the Supreme Court.

He further urged the government to take action against those individuals involved in the embezzlement of 1.35 billion in the procurement of two wide-body aircraft. Several government officials including Tourism Minster Rabindra Adhikari has been implicated in the wide-body purchase scam.

KATHMANDU, Feb 12: Rastriya Prajatantra Party (Samyukta) Chair Pashupati Shumsher J B Rana has claimed that both the government and the opposition have become unsuccessful.

“The government and Nepali Congress both have failed. They have failed to utilize the opportunities in interest of people and the country,” said Rana at an interaction program organized by the Reporters’ Club Nepal on Tuesday.

“The government is stable now. But, they have achieved very less during their one-year period,” he added.

“Our turn has arrived now. If they keep failing to work as per the expectations of the people, monarchy can return.”

He also accused the incumbent government failing to control corruption. “Oli said that he would eradicate corruption from the root. But he has failed to put his words into action. Billions of rupees was misappropriated while procuring two wide-body aircrafts,” said Rana.

He also said that the incumbent government has failed to maintain balance in diplomatic level.

“Nepal Communist Party Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s statement on the US intervention on Venezuela political crisis has strained the diplomatic ties with the US,” he said.

“The government had no rush to speak on the Venezuela issue,” he added.

HETAUDA, Jan 22: Chairperson of Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), Kamal Thapa, has expressed commitment to establish RPP as the alternative political force to communist and congress.

He said the republic, secularism and federalism are the agenda of communists and added that NC would be only the ‘follower party’ of the communists if the NC carried the communist agenda.

At a door-to-door program organized on Tuesday by Party at Hetauda-6 under ‘Hinduism Awareness Campaign’, Chair Thapa said that time has come where all should stand together once again for the protection of religion, culture and identity.

Saying corruption has been increasing in the country, he said government’s indifference on the issue of wide-body, gold scandal and black money kept in foreign countries was unfortunate.

The RPP Chair said the RPP was not against any religion, adding that many Hindus are forced into conversion due to poverty and illiteracy and it should be stopped. RSS

KATHMANDU, Aug 21: All central office-bearers of Rastriya Prajatantra Party have been relieved from the post from on Monday with an intention to reconstitute the central committee.

The Central Committee was dissolved to take ahead the party as per the sentiment of amended statute. Central Working Committee meeting held under the chairmanship of Party Chairman Kamal Thapa at Party Headquarters, Dhumrabarahi, on Monday, approved the statute with revision, said Spokesperson, Bhuwan Pathak.

As per the new statute, there is a provision of 277-member central working committee. RSS

KATHMANDU, May 24: Chairman of the Rastyriya Prajatantra Party, Kamal Thapa, has accused the government of attempting to impose authoritarianism by meting out hostility to the opposition parties.

Speaking at an interaction program organized by the Reporters’ Club Nepal on Thursday, he also accused the government of interpreting the constitution as per its interest. “The government’s intention is clear. It is trying to bring authoritarianism in the country,” he added.

He further blamed the government of failing to work for peace, stability and democracy.

“The government will take 90 percent of employees, security bodies and judiciary under control in the coming two to three years,” he furthered accused.

Thapa also said that he was ready to quit the post for the making of nationalist democratic force.

KATHMANDU, May 17: The Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) has decided to support the legal provision which stipulates for the automatic suspension of the Member of Parliament (MP) post in case an MP is accused of criminal offence.

A meeting of central work execution committee of the party decided this, said party spokesman Bhuwan Pathak.

The meeting passed with revision the political paper the party chairman Kamal Thapa is to present in the meeting of the party’s central council scheduled to be held in Birgunj May 21-23.

It also endorsed the organization strengthening action plan, the training action plan, the proposal on amendment of the party statute and the report on evaluation of the election results to be presented in the council meeting by party general secretary Rajendra Lingden, spokesman Pathak, central member Govinda Khaniya and central member Dr Bishnu Bhandari, respectively. RSS

KATHMANDU, March 10: Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) is to give its vote of confidence to Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli.

Party Spokesperson Bhuwan Pathak in a press statement Saturday said that the party is standing in favor of the incumbent prime minister in the voting Sunday as he is seeking a vote of confidence in the parliament same day.

“The RPP’s support for the PM is to promote nationality, democracy and political stability in the country,” said the party which was a member in the Nepali Congress-led democratic election alliance during the elections to the House of Representatives and State Assemblies in November and December last year.

The party has a single member in the House of Representatives.

Meanwhile, the Federal Socialist Forum Nepal has said that the party’s parliamentary meeting scheduled for 12:00 noon tomorrow would decide whether to support the incumbent government. The Rastriya Janata Party has already announced its support to the Oli-led government. RSS

KATHMANDU, Jan 4: Majority of the RPP leaders speaking at the party’s central working committee meeting on Thursday noted that the alliance forged with NC was the major reason behind the party’s loss in the recent federal and provincial elections.

It may be noted that the party won one seat to the House of Representatives based on an electoral alliance reached with the CPN-UML in the eastern region.

They also reasoned that the party failed to cross the minimum threshold as it had fielded its candidates in only five of the 165 constituencies, according to party spokesperson Bhuvan Pathak. So far 58 leaders have spoken in the meeting that began on Wednesday and will continue tomorrow as well.

Division in the party and internal strife, the decision of the party to join the present government were also pointed out as reasons for the defeat. RSS

KATHMANDU, Nov 19: Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) has expressed profound sorrow over the untimely demise of Prakash Dahal, son of former Prime Minister and CPN (Maoist Center) chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal.

In a statement issued here today, the party has expressed sadness over the incident and has extended condolences to the bereaved families. Earlier, party chair Kamal Thapa had expressed his sorrow over the incident via twitter.

Meanwhile, Unified RPP (Nationalist) also has expressed sorrow over the incident and prayed for eternal peace to the departed soul, while extending heartfelt condolences to members of the bereaved family.

KANCHANPUR, Nov 12: The Nepali Congress (NC) has forged an electoral alliance with the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (Democratic) (RPP-D) in Kanchanpur.

As per the agreement, both the RPP and RPP-D will support all NC’s election candidates in Kanchanpur district (three for the House of Representatives polls, and six for the State Assemblies).

The coalition formation was announced at a joint press conference held on Saturday evening in Bhimdattanagar in Kanchanpur.

“We have formed a joint election coordination committee, and are launching joint election campaign. An election mobilization committee will also be formed in the district,” said RPP’s district Chairman Purna Bahadur Chand at the event.

Likewise, NC central member and former minister Ramesh Lekhak said they started a new practice by forging an electoral alliance with the RPP and RPP-D. RSS