BAITADI: General Secretary of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) Jayanta Bahadur Chand said that the party had to face defeat in the first phase of local level elections after it failed to introduce its agenda to people.

Chand said so while talking briefly to Rastriya Samachar Samiti. Chand is currently in his hometown in course of election publicity. He said that the party has the agenda of establishing Nepal as a Hindu nation, constitutional monarchy as well as building a prosperous country on the ground of nationality and democracy.

Chand said, "Quitting the government just before the election was the main cause behind party's defeat. We will go before the people along with agenda and will be successful in the second phase of local elections." He stressed that the second-round of

He stressed that the second phase of election was compulsion as the local level election leads the country towards the path of prosperity.

Saying win and loss is natural in democratic practice, the RPP General Secretary urged party's cadres to be active in the second phase of elections.