Kathmandu, April 21 (RSS): Some office-bearers and central committee members including the vice-president of Rastriya Janata Party Nepal, Ashok Kumar Yadav, have defected from the party and formed a new party called Rastriya Janata Party (Loktantrik).
They held a press conference here today and announced the formation of the new party. An 11-member ad-hoc committee has been formed under Yadav’s coordination until the new party’s general convention is held.
Ritesh Kumar Sigh is the joint coordinator, Madhu Maya Yadav the treaurer and Subash Chandra Biraji and Jeevan Saha arethe two general secretaries of the ad-hoc committee. Similarly, Sadhana Yadav and Lukky Sharma are the two secretaries, Dipendra Yadav is the spokesman while the members of the ad-hoc committee include Dharma Raj Gupta, Bipana Acharya and Shambhu Pandit.
Speaking on the occasion, coordinator Yadav said that although 63 Madhesis got martyrdom during the Madhes Movement, only six members of the presidium of the Rastriya Janata Party Nepal and their family members have been benefited out of this.
He said they defected from RJP as the RJP has abandoned the main agenda of the Madhesi people and was instead preparing to join the government.
Thirty three central committee members of the RJP defected to form the new party. It is said nationality, democracy and socialism are the new party’s political principles.
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