Country: | Nepal |
Rastriya Prajatantra Party (Nationalist) | |
Native Name: | राष्ट्रिय प्रजातन्त्र पार्टी (राष्ट्रवादी) |
Colorcode: | yellow |
President: | Lokendra Bahadur Chand |
Foundation: | 1997 |
Headquarters: | Kathmandu |
Split: | Rastriya Prajatantra Party |
Merged: | Rastriya Prajatantra Party |
Dissolved: | 1998[1] |
Ideology: | Liberalism Constitutional Monarchism |
Position: | Centre-right |
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.
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.