Kathmandu: A major split has emerged within the Rastriya Prajatantra Party after 183 leaders, including senior office bearers and central committee members, collectively resigned from the party under the leadership of General Secretary Dhawal Shamsher Rana.

Addressing a special gathering of party leaders and cadres in Kathmandu on Thursday, Rana described the last four years of his political life as the most painful period he had experienced. He said the group had concluded that meaningful political change was no longer possible within the party's existing structure.

Comparing the current state of the RPP to a "cracked house" and a "broken vehicle," Rana said it had become necessary to build a new political platform after realizing that the values and agenda they had championed could not advance within the party.

“Five years ago we supported Rajendra Lingden to become party president, but today we have been compelled to leave the same house,” Rana said. “This is not a day of celebration. When your ideals can no longer move forward within the organization you belong to, you must find the courage to build a new house.”

The resigning faction includes several prominent leaders, among them Vice President Mukundashyam Giri, former minister Dilnath Giri, and other influential figures from central, provincial, and district-level party structures.

In a statement issued after the resignation, the group accused the current leadership of increasing internal arbitrariness, weakening the party’s core agendas of monarchy restoration, Hindu statehood, and nationalism, and undermining organizational structures. The faction also alleged that the leadership failed to take responsibility for the party’s disappointing electoral performance and had increasingly centralized decision-making.

Rana maintained that he harbors no personal grievances against the party or its leaders but argued that a new political force is needed to advance what he described as a stronger nationalist agenda. He called on supporters who favor nationalism, the restoration of a Hindu state, and anti-corruption reforms to unite behind a new political movement.

The collective resignation of 183 leaders is being viewed as one of the largest internal defections in the RPP's recent history and is expected to have significant implications for Nepal's right-wing political landscape.