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Pragatisheel Loktantrik Party

political party in Nepal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ136838705 ↗
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The Pragatisheel Loktantrik Party (PLP) is a centre-left political party in Nepal. The party formation was announced on 14 November 2025 through an agreement signed by former Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai's Nepal Socialist Party, Janardan Sharma's Progressive National Campaign, and Santosh Pariyar, former chief whip of the Rastriya Swatantra Party. The party retained the eye as its election symbol.

History

Formation

Former Finance and Home minister of Nepal, Janardan Sharma formed the Progressive National Campaign along with former ministers Ram Karki, Sudan Kirati from CPN (Maoist Centre) that had opposed the formation of Nepali Communist Party. The campaign was launched 4 November 2025 with a vision to develop new form of Nepali socialism putting forward youths in leadership. The campaign aimed to create a new mainstream leftist force, free from the influence of older leaders who have been involved in the political revolving door of leadership.

On 14 November 2025 the campaign announced the formation of the Pragatisheel Loktantrik Party along with former Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai's Nepal Socialist Party (Naya Shakti) and former Rastriya Swatantra Party chief whip Santosh Pariyar.

In May 2026, Bhattarai left the PLP.

Ideology

As part of the original merger agreement, the party's ideology consisted of Progressive Socialism and support for a multi-party system in Nepal, while the party itself remains officially secular. The party's ideological political stand with participation of all in democracy. The party's manifesto called for a transition to a directly elected presidential system, direct elections for provincial heads and a fully proportional electoral system.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pragatisheel Loktantrik Party” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.