Dr. Dhawal Shamsher Rana Claims Rastriya Prajatantra Party's Central Committee Has Lost Legitimacy

Kathmandu. Dr. Dhawal Shamsher Rana, a leader who has left the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), has claimed that the current central working committee led by Chairman Rajendra Lingden has lost its legitimacy.

Issuing an appeal, Dr. Rana stated that the party is in a legal crisis as the extended six-month deadline, as per the party's statute, expired on Jestha 19.

According to Dr. Rana, the term of the working committee elected from the RPP's unity general convention ended last Mangsir. Subsequently, the general convention suggestion committee formed a year ago under the convenorship of Vice-Chairman Hemjung Gurung had suggested holding the convention by Mangsir if the election was delayed, or by Jestha if it was expedited. Rana asserts that the central committee extended the term by six months accordingly, but that period concluded yesterday, Jestha 19.

Rana has accused the party of losing its reputation due to the working style of Chairman Rajendra Lingden. "The Chairman's statement that I was given the responsibility to prepare the schedule for the convention and that I shirked my responsibility is laughable and slanderous," Rana said. "The irresponsible style of trying to become clean by placing one's own shortcomings on others has endangered the party's ideological values and principles."

Rana has claimed that party members are leaving one after another due to the leadership's inaction, and the crisis of confidence has deepened.

He urged the party workers not to fall for the Chairman's 'confusing rhetoric' and pointed out the need for all nationalist forces and minds to unite and engage in a new campaign.