NCP Madhesh Province member Prabhakar Gupta joins RSP

Prabhakar Gupta, a Madhesh Province committee member of the Nepal Communist Party (NCP), has joined the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), leaving the party led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal.

Gupta is from Ghadiarwa in Ward No. 10 of Birgunj Metropolitan City, Parsa. He had been active in Dahal's communist party for more than two decades.

His political journey began with student politics in 2061 BS. In 2063 BS he became a city committee member of ANNFSU (Revolutionary), and the following year he became a district committee secretariat member.

In 2065 BS he contested for a member's seat in the student union election at Thakur Ram Multiple Campus, and a year later he headed the unit committee at the same campus. In 2067 BS he was nominated as a Parsa district member of the then CPN (Maoist Centre).