EC’s decision may affect local poll: RPP chair Thapa; RPP to move SC against Election Commission

Kathmandu / March 18: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Federal Affairs and Local Development Kamal Thapa who is also the chair of Rastriya Prajatantra Party has urged the Election Commission to correct its decision regarding to remove the portion of Hindu state and monarchy from the party statute.

The EC on Friday had removed the same portion saying it contradicted constitutional provisions of republican order and secularism.

Speaking in a programme organized to make the party’s election symbol public here today, chair Thapa has urged the EC to correct its decision in this connection.

He further shared that they had adopted these principles following the constitutional provision. In another note, DPM Thapa said that the EC’s decision may affect the local poll as these principles were their fundamental principles.

Similarly, former Prime Minister Lokendra Bahadur Chand and vice chair Buddhiman Tamang also urged the EC to correct its decision.

RPP to move SC against Election Commission

Meanwhile, the ruling Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) has decided to lodge a petition against the Election Commission’s decision to remove ‘constitutional monarchy’ and a ‘Hindu state’ from the party’s statute.

An emergency meeting of the RPP held today under the chair of party Chairman Kamal Thapa decided to move the Supreme Court (SC) against the EC’s decision to remove ‘constitutional monarchy’ and a ‘Hindu state’ from the party’s statute, RPP leader Rajaram Shrestha said.

The RPP has said that demand for the constitutional monarchy and Hindu state were included in the party statute as per the ideological freedom ensured by the constitution.

The party has also decided to submit a memorandum in all district election offices across the country on March 20 and pile pressure for the restoration of a Hindu nation from the first week of April.

Similarly, the meeting has decided to register an amendment motion in the Parliament for the scrap of secularism and restoration of the Hindu nation in the constitution. RSS