Yagya Bhattarai, head of the Law and Political Parties Division, said that the number of parties registered with the Election Commission has reached 126.
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There has also been a surge in the registration of new political parties at the Election Commission. Five new political parties have been registered since the announcement of the House of Representatives elections. In addition, 20 new parties and one party that emerged from the unification process are also in the registration process. The Nepali Communist Party, formed by the unification of various parties, including the old parties, the Maoist Center and the Unified Socialist Party, is in the registration process. According to the Commission's Political Party Management Division, 21 applications for registration, including those that emerged from the unification, are pending.
As the date for registering political parties for the House of Representatives elections to be held on 21 Falgun is approaching, the number of new political parties has increased.
After the Gen-G agitation on 23 and 24 Bhadra, the Shram Sanskriti Party led by Dharan Sub-metropolitan Mayor Harkaraj Rai (Sampang), the Dynamic Democratic Party led by Dinesh Raj Prasai, which includes Buddha Air operator Birendra Bahadur Basnet, and the Nagarik Unmukti Party, Nepal, which is patronized by Resham Chaudhary, have been registered. The Nagarik Unmukti Party, Nepal received its registration certificate on Wednesday.
Similarly, two new parties have been added after the election announcement by splitting from two political parties. The Janaswaraj Party has been formed by splitting from the Janmat Party. Similarly, the Rastriya Janmukti Party, which was formed by splitting from the Nepal Janamukti Party, has also been listed with the commission. With this, the number of parties registered with the Election Commission has reached 126, said Yagya Bhattarai, head of the Law and Political Parties Division. The registration of the Nepal Communist Party Unification National Campaign led by Bamdev Gautam, which was previously registered with the commission, has been cancelled. Gautam had merged his party into the Unified Socialist Party.
Similarly, the Ujjaya Nepal Party led by Anup Upadhyaya, the Rastriya Parivartan Party led by Ajay Kumar Rai, the Nepal Liberal Party led by Gopilal Neupane, and the Communist Party of Nepal led by Netra Bikram Chand, which is supported by Kulman Ghising, are in the registration process. The Janayug Party led by Nawaraj Subedi, the Hamro Party Nepal led by Khagendra Sunar, the Nepal National Youth Party led by Himalaya Bahadur Chand, and the National Energetic Party, Nepal, have applied for registration.
Similarly, Chandra Prakash Subedi's Sundar Nepal Nirman Party, Sabin Sigdel's Rastra Nirman Party, Ratna Prasad Shrestha's Citizen Supremacy Party, and Riyaz Ahmed Shesh's Rastriya Swaraj Party have filed applications for registration with the commission.
Rajkumar Kakshapati has filed for the registration of the Communist Party of Nepal (Left Center), Sundarram Bohara of the Awaaz Party, Ganesh Kumar Mandal of the Sovereign Nagarik Party, Madhav Prasad Khatiwada of the Nagarik Bachau Dal, Nepal and Akbar Khan of the Rashtra Nirman Dal Nepal. Similarly, Supreme Court Bar Secretary Raman Kumar Karna's Janadesh Party Nepal and Prashant Singh's People First Party are also in the registration process.
According to Bhattarai, Chief of the Political Party Management Division, the parties that have completed the procedures prescribed by law have received party registration certificates. He said that the work of studying the documents of other parties that came for registration and identifying the central committee and members is ongoing.
