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Rastriya Prajatantra Party (Nationalist)
राष्ट्रिय प्रजातन्त्र पार्टी (राष्ट्रवादी)
President Lokendra Bahadur Chand
Founded1997
Dissolved1998 [1]
Split from Rastriya Prajatantra Party
Merged into Rastriya Prajatantra Party
Headquarters Kathmandu
Ideology Liberalism
Constitutional Monarchism
Political position Centre-right

Rashtriya Prajatantra Party-Chand ( Nepali: राष्ट्रिय प्रजातन्त्र पार्टी-चन्द; translation: National Democratic Party-Chand) was a Nepalese political party. It was a right-wing pro-monarchy party, formed out of the political elite of the erstwhile Panchayat system.

The party was first founded in 1997 when a faction of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party led by Lokendra Bahadur Chand joined a coalition government with Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist), with Chand as Prime Minister. The faction led by Surya Bahadur Thapa allied itself with Nepali Congress and toppled the UML-RPP government. In 1998 the party was reunited, after both factions had fared badly in the elections that year.

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