Sumana Shrestha, former education minister and is now the leader of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), quit the party on Sunday.
Sumana Shrestha was a member of Nepal’s second federal parliament until the House was dissolved on September 11, 2025. She was a member of the House of Representatives and was elected as the proportional representative of the indigenous community through the Rastriya Swatantra Party.
She announced her reignition on Sunday on X, “I QUIT!” I am no longer at the party! Shrestha wrote.
In the same post, she said that the leaders “never admit mistakes” and that it had become “intolerable” for them to “keep making mistakes on top of mistakes and burdening all party members with that load.” She said that the party had put “media trials” on people who criticized it from within and that “this is not okay.”
Shrestha claimed she had been worried “ever since the Rastriya Swatantra Party started putting the party above the country and leaders above the party,” but “it made no difference at all.” Instead, trials in the media began to happen.
“Now, I’ve made it easier for them to attack openly. “Do whatever you want for as long as you want,” she wrote.
She also told younger leaders in the Nepali Congress, CPN-UML, and other parties to think about who they are committed to. “Now is the proper time. Stop idolizing your leaders. “Take them out or step down yourself,” she wrote on X.
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