Akhanda Nepal Party (, 'Great Nepal Party') was a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ...

Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...

. As of 2013, the chairman of the party was Kumar Khadka. The party joined

Nepali Congress The Nepali Congress ( ; Abbreviation, abbr. NC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Congress, is a Social democracy, social democratic List of political parties in Nepal, political party in Nepal and the largest party in the country ...

ahead of the

2017 Nepalese general election General elections were held in Nepal in two phases on 26 November and 7 December 2017 to elect the 275 members of the fifth House of Representatives, the lower house of the Federal Parliament of Nepal. The election was held alongside the first ...

. The party calls for the reinstatement of Nepal as a Hindu state. It proposes a topography-based

federal system Federalism is a mode of government that combines a general level of government (a central or federal government) with a regional level of sub-unit governments (e.g., provinces, states, cantons, territories, etc.), while dividing the powers o ...

in Nepal, and opposes a federal structure drawn along ethnic/linguistic lines. The party favoured a

presidential system A presidential, strong-president, or single-executive system (sometimes also congressional system) is a form of government in which a head of government (usually titled " president") heads an executive branch that derives its authority and l ...

, with a directly elected president that appoints a government. The party registered itself with the

Election Commission of Nepal The Election Commission, Nepal (; ''Nirvācana āyōg, Nēpāl'') is a constitutional body responsible for conducting and monitoring elections, as well as registering parties and candidates and reporting election outcomes, in Nepal. It was born o ...

ahead of the 2013 Constituent Assembly election.Nepal Law Society.
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'' It presented 105 candidates in

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constituencies. For the

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vote the party submitted a list of 100 candidates, headed by Anirudra Thapa. The election symbol of the party is a pennon.Election Commission of Nepal
संबिधानसभाको निर्वाचनको लागि मान्यता पाएका दलहरुको नाम तथा चिन्हहरु

History

On 19 January 2017, the party for the first time joined the government, for which chairman Kumar Khadka joined the Second Dahal coalition government as the Minister for Women, Children and Social Welfare Development. On 22 April 2017, the Akhanda Party Nepal joined the

ahead of the

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{{reflist Nepalese Hindu political parties 2017 disestablishments in Nepal

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