Sajha Party

Sajha Party साझा पार्टी
Leader	Rabindra Mishra
Spokesperson	Sharad Raj Pathak[1]
Founder	Rabindra Mishra
Founded	1 March 2017 (2017-03-01) 2017–2019 (as Bibeksheel Sajha Party)
Dissolved	9 December 2019
Succeeded by	Bibeksheel Sajha Party
Headquarters	Bakhundol, Lalitpur, Nepal[2]
Youth wing	Sajha Yuva Sangathan
Women's wing	Sajha Women Organization
Ideology	Social liberalism Social democracy Progressivism
Political position	Centre
Seats in Provincial Assemblies	1 / 110 Bagmati Province
Website
sajhaparty.org
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The Sajha Party (Nepali: साझा पार्टी) is a political party founded by former editor-in-chief of BBC Nepali Service Rabindra Mishra.[3][4][5][6]

History

Sajha Party was founded in 2017 by the former editor-in-chief of BBC Nepali Service, Rabindra Mishra.[7] It was formed as an "alternative" party and guided by the welfare economy and inspired by global norms of democracy.[8] The party contested the 2017 local election as independents with Ramesh Maharjan and Kishore Thapa finishing third and fourth in Kathmandu and Lalitpur elections respectively.[9][10][11] Deputy mayor candidate Sobha Shakya finished in second place in Lalitpur, and Nirupama Yadav finished third in Kathmandu.[9][11][12] The party was not as successful outside the Kathmandu Valley with their candidates in Itahari getting less than 500 votes.[13]

Bibeksheel Sajha

On 26 July 2017 the party announced that it 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.[14][15][16][17] The party split on 11 January 2019 when party co-ordinator Ujwal Thapa, along with 16 central committee members filed an application to register his old party, Bibeksheel Nepali Dal at the Election Commission.[18] The party changed its name to Sajha Bibeksheel Party on 27 April 2019 and later reverted to Sajha Party.[19] The party announced on 20 October 2020 that it was in talks with Bibeksheel Nepali Dal for reunification.[20] The two parties announced their merger on 9 December 2020 and formed the Bibeksheel Sajha Party again.[21]

Presence in various provinces

Province	Seats	Year of election
Bagmati	1 / 110	2017

See also

• Naya Shakti
• Bibeksheel Nepali
• Rabindra Mishra
• Surya Raj Acharya
• Bibeksheel Sajha Party

References

1. पार्टी, साझा. "साझा पार्टी". Sajha Party. Retrieved 2020-11-11.
2. "साझा पार्टी". Sajha Party. Retrieved 2020-11-11.
3. "Rabindra Mishra asks EC to secure Sajha Party's name, election symbol". The Himalayan Times. March 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
4. "Mishra quits BBC to form 'Sajha Party'". The Kathmandu Post. 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. "Journalist Mishra registers Sajha Party". Republica. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
7. "Rabindra Mishra asks EC to secure name and symbol of Sajha Party". The Himalayan Times. 2017-03-01. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
8. "Mishra quits BBC to form 'Sajha Party'". Retrieved 2018-04-18.
9. "Sajha Party fields mayor, deputy mayor candidates in Lalitpur". The Himalayan Times. 2017-04-29. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
10. "Ex-Secy Kishore Thapa fielded as Sajha's independent candidate for Kathmandu mayor". The Himalayan Times. 2017-04-14. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
11. "CPN-UML's Bidya Sundar Shakya elected Kathmandu Metro City mayor". Retrieved 2018-04-18.
12. "NC wins mayor, deputy mayor in Lalitpur metro". Retrieved 2018-04-18.
13. "Sajha Party loses luster in Itahari Sub-metropolis; gets only 181 votes". My Republica. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
14. "Rabindra Mishra asks EC to secure Sajha Party's name, election symbol". The Himalayan Times. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
15. "Mishra quits BBC to form 'Sajha Party'". The Kathmandu Post. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
16. "Journalist Mishra registers Sajha Party". Republica. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
17. "Rabindra Mishra's brainchild is born: Sajha Party proposes Balance as its election symbol". Onlinekhabar. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
18. "17 months after unification, Bibeksheel Sajha Party splits". kathmandupost.ekantipur.com. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
19. "अब साझा विवेकशील". www.kantipurdaily.com (in Nepali). Retrieved 2019-04-29.
20. "Bibeksheel Nepali", Wikipedia, 2020-11-09, retrieved 2020-11-09
21. Republica. "Sajha Party and Bibeksheel Nepali merge to form Bibeksheel Sajha Party". My Republica. Retrieved 2020-12-09.

External links

• Sajha Party on Facebook