Eight new parties have emerged in the CA having split from the mother parties. [break]
All the five Madhes-based parties have split after the CA election. The Madhesi People´s Rights Forum (MPRF) has so far split twice, forming MPRF-Democratic and MPRF-Republican. Similarly, other Madhes-based parties -- Tarai-Madhes Democratic Party (TMDP), Sadbhavana Party and Nepal Sadbhavana Party (Anandidevi) -- have also split giving rise to new parties. Three other political parties-- CPN (ML), Churebhawar Rastriya Ekta Party, Federal Democratic National Front (FDNF)-- have also split.
Altogether 25 political parties succeeded in electing members in the CA during the election in 2008.After the election, erstwhile CPN (Maoist) and Janamorcha Nepal united to form the UCPN (Maoist).
Since then it´s been just the story of split and division in the parties.
The parliament secretariat has so far arranged parliamentary party (PP) offices for 30 parties whereas other two newly-formed Sanghiya Sadbhavana Party led by Anil Jha and Nava Nepal Nirman Party led by Motilal Dugad are without PP offices.
Parliament secretariat Spokesman, Mukunda Sharma, said the new parties are yet to be provided PP offices and other necessary logistics. “The infrastructure and human resources were originally designed for the 205-member House of Representatives and 60-member National Assembly after the advent of multiparty democracy in 1990,” Sharma said, adding, “It´s ovious that it´s very tough to provide office space, staffs and other logistics to all the parties but we have somehow been managing till now."
There were only about a dozen political parties in the parlaiment before 2008. But the CA election gave way to a fractured mandate electing 601 members from 25 parties.
After the election, the secretariat provided office space to some of the small political parties at a separate building nearby the secretariat.
Two parties without members in CA
With the annulment of the CA membership of lawmakers Keshav Prasad Mainali of Chure Bhawar Rashtriya Ekata Party (CREP) and Raj Kumar Limbu (Nalbo) of Federal Democratic National Front (FDNF) on August 9, no lawmaker represents the parties because both the parties had one lawmaker each.
Both Mainali and Limbu had earlier applied to register new parliamentary parties at the CA secretariat as per the Anti-defection Act that allows any leader who commands 40 percent of the lawmakers in his/her party to register a new parliamentary party.
Mainali was the only lawmaker elected from CREP in the CA, while Libmu was one of the total two lawmakers from FDNF at the time of division.
In his application to register a new parliamentary party at the CA secretariat, Mainali had claimed that he commanded the support of the 100 percent lawmakers in his one-member parliamentary party. Likewise, Limbu had claimed that 50 percent of his two-member parliamentary party stood in favor of his proposal to form a new parliamentary party.
But the Speaker scrapped their membership as per the recommendation by a panel formed to probe into their claims.
Now, their respective parties can nominate lawmakers for the vacant seats but the process has been halted as the case is sub-judice in the court.
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