Rashtriya Janata Party-Nepal leaders including its two general secretaries have started a sit-in at the party headquarters in Babarmahal demanding that the party leadership correct its proportional representation list submitted to the Election Commission.
Those staging the sit-in include General Secretaries Keshav Jha and Peshal Dhakal, central members BP Yadav, Dipak Jha and Dipendra Agrawal and office bearers of party’s student and youth wing. They are demanding that the party’s PR list must be prepared to take the party leaders rank into consideration. Political parties submitted their PR lists for the upcoming elections on Sunday. According to General Secretary Jha, the agitating leaders are chagrined by the party leadership’s decision to include those on the list who were not even party members.
Women leaders who have been involved in politics for long have been ignored and the leadership has failed to ensure justifiable representation of youths and student leaders, he said. The agitating leaders have also demanded a Central Election Committee to finalize the candidates for the First-Past-the-Post election system.
On Wednesday, the leaders stage their protest for two hours from noon. They have said they will continue their sit-in until the leadership corrects the PR list.
We will launch a relay hunger strike after Tihar if the party leadership does not address our concerns, said Jha. Six leaders in the party’s presidium were authorized to finalize the RJP-N’s PR list.
राष्ट्रिय जनता पार्टी ( राजपा ) नेपालको केन्द्रीय महासचिब लगायत केन्द्रीय सदस्य, युवा नेताहरु बुधबार फ्हरना बसेका छन् ।
पार्टीले निर्वाचन आयोगमा बुझाएको समानुपातिक सुची सच्याउनु पर्ने, पार्टीको साधारण सदस्य समेत नरहेकी महिलालाई समानुपातिक सूचीबाट हटाउनु पर्ने लगायतका माग राखेका छन् । 'जातिगत आधार . प्रेमिका, श्रीमती , पैसावालहरुलाई समानुपातिक सुचिमा राखिएको छ ' महासचिब केशब झाले भने , आन्दोलनकारीहरु, युवा, र सक्रिय नेताहरुलाई पाखा लगाइएको छ । धर्नामा महासचिब झाका साथै केन्द्रीय सदस्यहरु, बीपी यादव , दिपक कुमार झा, दिपेन्द्र अग्रवाल, नागेन्द्र झा, युवा संगठनका अध्यक्ष्य रोशन सिंह राणा , महासचिब गायत्री कुमारी उपाध्याय, मुकेश कर्ण , पेशल ढकाल लगायत छन् ।