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Rashtriya Prajatantra Party-Chand (Nepali: राष्ट्रिय प्रजातन्त्र पार्टी-चन्द; translation: National Democratic Party-Chand) was a Nepalese political party. It was a right-wing pro-monarchy party, formed out of the political elite of the erstwhile Panchayat system.
Rastriya Prajatantra Party (Nationalist) राष्ट्रिय प्रजातन्त्र पार्टी (राष्ट्रवादी) | |
|---|---|
| President | Lokendra Bahadur Chand |
| Founded | 1997 |
| Dissolved | 1998[1] |
| Split from | Rastriya Prajatantra Party |
| Merged into | Rastriya Prajatantra Party |
| Headquarters | Kathmandu |
| Ideology | Liberalism Constitutional Monarchism |
| Political position | Centre-right |
The party was first founded in 1997 when a faction of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party led by Lokendra Bahadur Chand joined a coalition government with Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist), with Chand as Prime Minister. The faction led by Surya Bahadur Thapa allied itself with Nepali Congress and toppled the UML-RPP government. In 1998 the party was reunited, after both factions had fared badly in the elections that year.