Bibeksheel Sajha Party

The Bibeksheel Sajha Party (Nepali: विवेकशील साझा पार्टी) is a political party in Nepal. It was originally founded on 26 July 2017 from the merger of Sajha Party and Bibeksheel Nepal Dal, but the party split on 11 January 2019. The two parties merged for a second time on 9 December 2020.

Bibeksheel Sajha Party

विवेकशील साझा पार्टी
AbbreviationBSP
ChairmanRabindra Mishra
SpokespersonSharad Raj Pathak
CoordinatorMilan Pandey
Founded26 July 2017 (2017-07-26)
9 December 2020 (2020-12-09) (Refounded)
Merger ofSajha Party
Bibeksheel Nepali
HeadquartersBakhundol, Lalitpur, Nepal[1]
IdeologySocial liberalism
Social democracy
Progressivism
Populism
Political positionCentre
Seats in Provincial Assemblies
3 / 110
Bagmati Province
Election symbol
Website
sajhaparty.org
bibeksheelnepali.com

History

On 26 July 2017 it was announced that Sajha Party would merge with Bibeksheel Nepali Dal to form Bibeksheel Sajha Party. The new party would be led under the joint leadership of Rabindra Mishra and Ujwal Bahadur Thapa. The party adopted scales as their electoral symbol.[2][3][4][5] In the 2017 legislative elections, the party contested 60 seats but won none.[6] Party founder and leader Rabindra Mishra lost in Kathmandu to Nepali Congress leader Prakash Man Singh by a margin of just 818 votes.[7] The party won 212,336 votes under proportional representation 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 House of Representatives.[8] The party also did not win any seats in the 2017 provincial election under first past the post but won three seats to the Provincial Assembly of Province No. 3 under proportional representation after finishing with the fourth highest number of votes with 124,442 votes.[9] The party decided to support Nepali Congress candidate Radhe Shyam Adhikari in the National Assembly elections on 6 February 2018.[5] Bibeksheel Sajha Party, along with Naya Shakti Party, abstained from voting in the 2018 presidential and vice-presidential elections.[10]

Dissolution and reformation

The party split on 11 January 2019 when party co-cordinator Ujwal Bahadur Thapa, along with 16 central committee members filed an application to register his old party, Bibeksheel Nepali Dal at the Election Commission.[11] The two parties announced on 20 October 2020 that they were in talks for reunification.[12] The two parties officially announced their reunification on 9 December 2020, twenty-three months after their split. It was also announced that Sajha Party leader Rabindra Mishra would serve as chairman of the new party and Bibeksheel Nepali chairman Milan Pandey would be the co-ordinator.[13]

Electoral performance
Election Leader(s) Votes Seats Position Resulting government
# % # +/-
2017 Rabindra Mishra
Ujwal Bahadur Thapa		 212,366 2.22
0 / 275
 6th CPN (UML)–CPN (Maoist Centre)

Presence in provincial assemblies
Province Seats Year of election
Bagmati
3 / 110
 2017

See also

References
  1. "साझा पार्टी". Sajha Party. Retrieved 2020-11-11.
  2. "Rabindra Mishra asks EC to secure Sajha Party's name, election symbol". The Himalayan Times. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  3. "Mishra quits BBC to form 'Sajha Party'". The Kathmandu Post. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  4. "Journalist Mishra registers Sajha Party". Republica. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  5. "Rabindra Mishra's brainchild is born: Sajha Party proposes Balance as its election symbol". Onlinekhabar. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  6. "Bibeksheel Sajha contesting for 60 seats, with focus on Valley". Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  7. "With Mishra's defeat, Bibeksheel Sajha loses hope for direct win". Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  8. "Only five parties crossed the threshold margin in PR votes - People's Review". People's Review. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
  9. "EC announces PR seats for Provincial Assembly". My Republica. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
  10. "Bibeksheel Sajha, Naya Shakti abstained from presidential poll". My Republica. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
  11. "17 months after unification, Bibeksheel Sajha Party splits". kathmandupost.ekantipur.com. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
  12. "Bibeksheel Nepali", Wikipedia, 2020-11-09, retrieved 2020-11-09
  13. Republica. "Sajha Party and Bibeksheel Nepali merge to form Bibeksheel Sajha Party". My Republica. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
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