All top leaders of the party including party Chairman Kamal Thapa participated in today’s program. The RPP-N chairman padlocked the Hatiya and Padpokhari VDC offices in Makawanpur district.[break]
On February 17, the RPP-N, the only pro-royalist party in the Constituent Assembly, had submitted a memorandum to the prime minister through local authorities before padlocking on February 21 all DDC and municipality offices across the country to press for its demand.
On February 9, the party leaders had met Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai and called his attention to the need of polls in the local bodies that have been functioning without elected representatives for over a decade now.
“The prime minister was positive to our demand and had expressed his personal willingness to conduct the elections as early as possible,” Mohan Shrestha, an RPP-N leader, recalled.
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