The RPP and the RPP (Chand), the two factions which had split two years ago, have begun talks for reunification. According to a source, in the talks, which began recently, the RPP was represented by Dr. Prakash Chandra Lohani, party’s spokesman Kamal Thapa and Rabindra Nath Sharma and the Chand faction was  represented by its spokesman Narayan Dutta Bhatta, Ram Krishna Acharya and Deepak Bohara.

In the talks the RPP side has proposed three agenda wich include the total acceptance of the decision of the party’s second national convention at Birgunj, no additional post should be created in the name of unification and the acceptance of the party’s constitution and norms.

The Chand side has demanded that Lokendra Bahadur Chand and Rajeshwor Devkota should be given some honourable position and the pursuance of the unification dialogue should be between Surya Bahadur Thapa and Pashupati Shumsher Rana from the RPP and Lokendra Bahadur Chand and Rajeshwor Devkota from the RPP (Chand).

The source has claimed that the  central committee meeting of the RPP on December 16 and the Chand’s central committee meeting one week later could be important for the unification of the two parties.

(Nepal Samacharpatra, December 12, Sunday).