Himal Press 
KATHMANDU: The Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) and RPP Nepal have decided to merge.
RPP Chairperson Rajendra Lingden and RPP Nepal Chairperson Kamal Thapa signed an understanding on party unification in Kathmandu on Wednesday.
The two parties, both of which share similar positions on issues such as the monarchy and the Hindu state, are organizing a joint gathering in Kathmandu on December 31 to formalize their unification.
Thapa split from the RPP after losing the party chairperson’s election to Lingden in 2021 and subsequently formed RPP Nepal. While RPP emerged as the fifth-largest party in the 2022 general election, the RPP Nepal failed to win a single seat.
The merger of RPP and RPP Nepal comes amid a wave of political realignments following the Gen Z–led protests of September 8 and 9. Last month, two leftist parties—CPN (Maoist Center) and CPN (Unified Socialist), along with several smaller groups, merged to form the Nepali Communist Party on November 5.
Similarly, some leaders from the CPN (Maoist Center) and the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) joined hands with Dr. Baburam Bhattarai’s Nepal Samajbadi Party (Naya Shakti) to launch the Pragatisheel Loktantrik Party on November 23.
