{"id":31925,"date":"2025-09-25T16:46:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T11:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=31925"},"modified":"2025-09-25T16:46:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T11:01:30","slug":"dr-bhattarai-quits-chair-post-of-nepal-samajbadi-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/dr-bhattarai-quits-chair-post-of-nepal-samajbadi-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Bhattarai quits chair post of Nepal Samajbadi Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Sept 25: Chairperson of the Nepal Samajbadi Party (Naya Shakti) and former Prime Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai announced that he quit from the party leadership today.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference in Kathmandu, Dr Bhattarai said he decided to step down to make way for a new generation of leaders in the current political context.<br \/>\n&#8220;Leadership transfer within political parties is essential. I have decided to quit as chairperson to allow the younger generation to take charge. However, I will continue working to build an alternative political force and promote social transformation,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed support for the recent Gen Z movement for good governance, calling it genuine. However, he accused some leaders and external groups of attempting to discredit the movement.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Bhattarai also urged young people to build national pressure to hold corrupt political leaders accountable. &#8220;Corruption must be investigated and punished, regardless of who is involved,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He further called for constitutional amendments to introduce a directly elected executive system, warning that the country could face a deeper crisis without reforms in the electoral and governance system.<\/p>\n<p>The leader encouraged Gen Z groups to participate and compete in the upcoming House of Representatives (HoR) elections scheduled for March 5, 2025, and to claim leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Sept 25: Chairperson of the Nepal Samajbadi Party (Naya Shakti) and former Prime Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai announced that he quit from the party leadership today. Speaking at a press conference in Kathmandu, Dr Bhattarai said he decided to step down to make way for a new generation of leaders in the current political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31928,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31925\/revisions\/31928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}