The Bibeksheel Sajha Party ( Nepali: विवेकशील साझा पार्टी) is a political party in Nepal. It was the sixth largest party of Nepal by popular vote after

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and the fifth largest party in

Bagmati provincial assembly The Provincial Assembly of Bagmati Province also known as the Bagmati Pradesh Sabha, (Nepali: वाग्मती प्रदेश सभा) is a unicameral governing and law making body of Bagmati Province, one of the seven provinces in N ...

Background

It was originally founded on 26 July 2017 from the merger of

Sajha Party The Sajha Party () is a political party founded by former editor-in-chief of BBC Nepali Service Rabindra Mishra. History Sajha Party was founded in 2017 by the former editor-in-chief of BBC Nepali Service, Rabindra Mishra. It was formed as an ...

and Bibeksheel Nepal Dal, but the party split on 11 January 2019. The two parties merged for a second time on 9 December 2020. Rabindra Mishra, coordinator of Party attempted to merge the Bibeksheel Sajha Party with an ideologically far-right Rastriya Prajratantra Party. Youth leaders of party opposed merger and retained party's original principles rejecting Rabindra Mishra's document 'Changing Course: Nation Above Notion' that proposes abolition of federalism and a plebiscite on secularism.

History

On 26 July 2017 it was announced that

would merge with Bibeksheel Nepali Dal to form Bibeksheel Sajha Party. The new party would be led under the joint leadership of

Rabindra Mishra Rabindra Mishra () is a Nepalis, Nepali philanthropist, ex-journalist, writer, poet, and politician. Currently, Mishra is the Senior Vice-chairman of Rastriya Prajatantra Party, after having resigned as a general member of Bibeksheel Sajha Party ...

and Ujwal Bahadur Thapa. The party adopted scales as their electoral symbol. In the 2017 legislative elections, the party contested 60 seats but won none. Party. The party won 212,336 votes under

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and finished with the sixth highest number of votes in the country. They were unable to cross the three percent threshold to gain seats in the

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. The party also did not win any seats in the 2017 provincial election under

first past the post First-past-the-post (FPTP)—also called choose-one, first-preference plurality (FPP), or simply plurality—is a single-winner voting rule. Voters mark one candidate as their favorite, or First-preference votes, first-preference, and the cand ...

but won three seats to the

Provincial Assembly of Province No. 3 The Provincial Assembly of Bagmati Province also known as the Bagmati Pradesh Sabha, (Nepali: वाग्मती प्रदेश सभा) is a Unicameralism, unicameral governing and law making body of Bagmati Province, one of the seven ...

under proportional representation after finishing with the fourth highest number of votes with 124,442 votes. The party decided to support

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 ...

candidate Radhe Shyam Adhikari in the

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elections on 6 February 2018. Bibeksheel Sajha Party, along with Naya Shakti Party, abstained from voting in the 2018 presidential and vice-presidential elections.

2022 General Election and First Convention

Following Mishra's departure, Bibeksheel Sajha Party participated 2022 Federal and Provincial election. Bibeksheel Sajha Party did its first general convention in February 11, 2023 electing Chair Samkichya Baskota, Vice-Chairs Milan Pandey and Prakash Chandra Pariyaar, and General Secretary Rajnu Darshana.

Electoral performance

Local election

Leadership

Party presidents

, 26 July 2017 - 25 May 2022 * Samikchya Baskota, 11 February 2023 - present

General Secretary

Ranju Darshana Ranju Darshana ( Nepali: रन्जु दर्शना) (born as Ranju Neupane on 3 March 1996) is a Nepalese youth activist and politician. She has been active in politics from very young age of seventeen. She became an iconic person after ...

-- 2079/10/28 - present

Spokesperson

* Ashutosh Pradhan, 2080 - present

Head Office Management

* Nabaraj Thapa, 2080 - present

Presence in provincial assemblies

References

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