Himal Press 
KATHMANDU: Nepal Samabajbadi Party (NSP) – Naya Shakti Chairperson and former Prime Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai has resigned from his position.
According to NSP (Nayashakti) leader Netra Chapagain, Bhattarai announced his resignation during a special meeting of the party’s Central Committee in Kathmandu on Wednesday afternoon.
With this, NSP (Nayashakti) has decided to hold a special general convention to restructure the party in line with the spirit of the Gen Z movement. NSP (Naya Shakti) has become the first political party in the country to initiate its restructuring after the Gen Z protest.
The party has nominated Senior Vice Chairperson Durga Sob as the coordinator of the general convention organizing committee.
“Dr Bhattarai has decided to launch a nationwide campaign for the polarization of alternative politics, together with the Gen-Z generation, in the changed context,” Chapgain, who is also the coordinator of the party’s Gandaki Province Committee, said.
Dr Bhattarai-led CPN (Maoist) launched the decade-long insurgency, which claimed over 17,000 lives, in 1996. After the peace process, the Maoists joined mainstream politics and Dr Bhattarai became Prime Minister from August 29, 2011, to March 14, 2013. He quit the CPN (Maoist) and formed the Naya Shakti Party, Nepal in June 2016. He later merged the party with Upendra Yadav-led Sanghiya Samajbadi Forum, Nepal, to create Samajbadi Party Nepal.
It later merged with the Rastriya Janata Party to form the Janata Samajbadi Party, Nepal. Later, Dr Bhattarai and some leaders split the party to form NSP in 2022.
