Kathmandu, April 23
Party leaders of the erstwhile Samajwadi Party and Rastriya Janata Party Nepal today filed an application for the registration of their unified new party as People’s Socialist Party Nepal.
The leaders reached the Kantipath-based Election Commission early this morning to inform the governing body about the merger.
Speaking with the press at the commission, a leader of the newly formed party, Rajendra Mahato informed that other remaining procedures would be completed once the lockdown would be over, adding protecting people’s health should be priority now. Mahato also claimed that the party would not split under any circumstance.
At midnight, the Samajwadi Party and the Rastriya Janata Party had come to an agreement to merge the two parties into one.
