Kathmandu, March 8:

The Rastriya Prajatantra Party (Rana) has expressed “serious concern” over the government media for advocating the name of home minister Kamal Thapa as the RPP president.

“The RPP believes that such misleading information would only delude the people,” party spokesperson Parsu Ram Khapung told a group of journalists today at the party office in Kupondole.

Brushing aside the result of what he called “so-called illegal general convention of a group of partymen” in New Baneswhor, Khapung said, “We cannot accept that meeting as a special convention.”

Claiming that the third general convention held in Pokhara had elected Pashupati SJB Rana as the party chairman, Khapung on behalf of the party said that there can be no other chairman of the party except Rana till the next general elections.

“How can a leader (Thapa), who has been expelled by the party, become the party chairman?” he questioned.

“How can he (Thapa) claim to be the party chairman when he has accepted the Gamala (vase) as the election symbol,” he quipped, urging the media not to disseminate such “misleading information”.

However, the Kamal Thapa-led Rastriya Prajatantra Party had, in a special convention held on January 10, “unanimously” elected Kamal Thapa as the party chairman.