Lamichhane and Raut elected as PP leader

Rabi Lamichhane has been elected the Parliamentary Party (PP) leader of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) during the party’s PP meeting. The RSP’s parliamentary party meeting held on Monday elected party Chairman Lamichhane as the PP leader.

Mukul Dhakal, the spokesperson for RSP, informed media  that Monday’s meeting has approved the decision as the party has already decided who will be the leader of the parliamentary party by holding preliminary elections. There are 20 MPs in the House of Representatives of RSP – seven through the first past the post system and and 13 through the proportional representation system. 

This party was founded on the initiative of former journalist Rabi Lamichhane and was born only after the local elections. It is the youngest party represented in parliament.

Similarly, Chairperson of the Janamat Party, Dr CK Raut, has been elected as the Party’s parliamentary party (PP) leader.

A meeting of the lawmakers elected from Janamat Party held at the party office in Buddhanagar on Monday unanimously elected Dr Raut as the PP leader, said Harendra Chaudhary, the party’s Kathmandu Valley in-charge.

Dr Raut was elected a member of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Federal Parliament, from Saptari constituency number 2. Janamat Party won one seat in the HoR under the first-past-the-post electoral system and it bagged five more seats under the proportional representation system.