Nearly 100 signatures of the total 413 submitted along with the appeal to convene a meeting of RPP’s Central Council to withdraw action against Kamal Thapa were “invalid”, a daily quoted RPP spokesperson Roshan Karki, as saying, Monday.

“The investigations are going on and about a hundred signatures have turned out to be invalid,” the Himalayan Times quoted Karki, as saying.

“A clearer picture is emerging,” she said, adding, “Some of the general convention representatives have signed in the appeal put by the council members. It is automatically invalid.”

The pro-government faction of RPP (Rastriya Prajatantra Party) had registered a plea at the RPP central secretariat last Friday demanding to convene the respective meeting before January 24.

RPP President Pashupati Shamsher Rana, with majority from the Central Working Committee (CWC), had sacked Kamal Thapa from the post of the party’s general secretary.

Thapa has been claiming that he is still intact in the post and that the party president had no rights to expel him.

According to RPP statute, the Central Council has the right to scrutinize decisions made by the CWC. nepalnews.com mr Jan 12