Report in The Kathmandu Post, June 6, 2023After the annual budget included the controversial Local Infrastructure Development Partnership Programme, popularly known as the Constituency Development Fund, the Rastriya Swatantra Party has vocally opposed the government’s move. Last Thursday, the party registered a resolution motion at the Parliament Secretariat demanding that the disputed fund be scrapped. Since the economy is in a poor shape, the state coffers will suffer further from such a disputed programme, which…
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By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, May 02, 2023The wirter is a reporter covering national politics for The Kathmandu Post.All eyes are now on the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) after it trounced the big political parties in two of the three constituencies in the recently-concluded bypolls. The party has given continuity to its support to the Pushpa Kamal Dahal-led government. With the RSP chair Rabi Lamichhane and Prime Minister Dahal holding two back-to-back talks,…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, April 15, 2023The writer is a reporter covering national politics for The Kathmandu Post.After sacking Dhaka Kumar Shrestha as a lawmaker and scrapping his ordinary membership, the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), on Wednesday, decided to replace him with Bindabasini Kansakar in Parliament. However, the party’s action has now sparked a legal debate. Shrestha, meanwhile, continues to claim that he is still an RSP lawmaker. Following the drastic step…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, April 14, 2023The writer is a reporter covering national politics for The Kathmandu Post.The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) and its leaders, including its chair and parliamentarians, have been courting controversies, one after another, in under a year of the party’s formation. Most recently, the RSP expelled its lawmaker Dhaka Kumar Shrestha from the party on Wednesday over a leaked audio in which a voice, allegedly Shrestha’s, demands Rs20…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, April 11, 2023The leakage of an audio recording where the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) lawmaker Dhaka Kumar Shrestha is purportedly asking for a bribe has caused a stir. The party has suspended Shrestha and its central discipline committee has been entrusted with completing an “in-depth investigation” into the matter within three days. In the audio conversation from January 15 which was leaked on Sunday, the person believed to…
By Ram Kumar Kamat in The Himalayan Times, Feb 6, 2023The Rabi Lamichhane-led Rastriya Swatantra Party, which has 19 seats in the House of Representatives, today (Feb 5) decided to quit the government over Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s refusal to give the home portfolio to the party. The party will, however, continue supporting the government. A joint meeting of the party’s central committee and parliamentary party held here today decided to recall its ministers…
By Ram Kumar Kamat in The Himalayan Times,February 3, 2023The Rabi Lamichhane-led Rastriya Swatantra Party will wait for two days before deciding whether or not it should leave the government over home portfolio. RSP Spokesperson Mukul Dhakal told mediapersons after his party’s central committee met parliamentary party lawmakers that Lamichhane received calls from Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, CPN-UML Chair KP Sharma Oli, and Rastriya Prajatantra Party Chair Rajendra Lingden during the meeting requesting him…
by Purushottam Poudel and Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 1, 2022The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP)’s swift rise as a political force is perhaps the biggest story of the November 20 polls. It has also made people curious: What is its governing ideology and political line? RSP President Rabi Lamichhane claimed in a recent interview with Onlinekhabar, a news website, that the party is right of centre. However, Shishir Khanal, a party leader elected…