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| name = Nepal Rashtrabadi Gorkha Parishad
| colorcode = #73a3de
| native_name = नेपाल राष्ट्रवादी गोर्खा परिषद
| logo = 
| president = [[Bharat Shamsher]]
| foundation = 1950
| headquarters = 
| ideology = [[Conservatism]] <br/> [[Monarchism]] <br/> [[Nationalism]]
| international = 
| website = 
| country = Nepal
| native_name_lang = ne
| position = [[Right-wing]]
| symbol = [[File:Rastriya Janamukti Election Symbol.png|100px]]
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'''Nepal Rashtrabadi Gorkha Parishad'''  ({{Literal|Nationalist Gorkha Council}}), a pro-[[monarchy]] [[political party]] in [[Nepal]]. The party was founded in 1951 by members of the erstwhile [[Rana dynasty]]. The party was led by [[Bharat Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana|Bharat Shamsher JBR]] and [[Major general|MG]] Mrigendra Shamsher JBR.<ref name="deve">Bajracharya, Bhadra Ratha/Sharma, Sita Ram/Bakshi S.R.. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=XtP7acgOQV0C Political development in Nepal]''. [[New Delhi]]: Anmol Publications, 1993. p. 114, 115</ref>

In 1990, a group reorganized a party under the same name.

== History ==
The party was known as '''Gorkha Dal''' until 1952, when it was suppressed after an armed mob had attacked the residence of [[B.P. Koirala]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Levi|first=Werner|date=1953|title=Government and Politics in Nepal: II|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3024691|journal=Far Eastern Survey|volume=22|issue=1|pages=5–10|doi=10.2307/3024691|jstor=3024691 |issn=0362-8949|url-access=subscription}}</ref> According to Levi, the party was a [[Far-right politics|far-right]] [[Communalism (South Asia)|communal]] creation of the [[Rana dynasty|Ranas]].<ref>Levi, Werner. ''[https://www.jstor.org/stable/3023744 Politics in Nepal]'', published in ''Far Eastern Survey'', Vol. 25, No. 3, (Mar., 1956), pp. 39-46</ref>

The party won 19 seats in the [[1959 Nepalese legislative election|1959 general elections]] and was the largest opposition in the [[House of Representatives (Nepal)|House of Representatives]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Levi|first=Werner|date=1959|title=Nepal's New Era|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3024359|journal=Far Eastern Survey|volume=28|issue=10|pages=150–156|doi=10.2307/3024359|jstor=3024359 |issn=0362-8949|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Shamsher was arrested in the 1960 royal coup, but was released in the fall of 1961 after giving support to the King. He was able to travel abroad, visited the [[Rome]] session of the [[Socialist International]] and then went to India. In India he denounced the royal regime in Nepal and pledged cooperation with the Nepali Congress to overthrow it. A month later he announced the merger of the party with the Nepali Congress. The Gorkha Parishad leaders in [[Kathmandu]] did however condemn this action.<ref name="deve" /> The party later disappeared, and its leaders went either to the opposition [[Nepali Congress]] or to work in the [[Panchayat (Nepal)|Panchayat]] system.

== Electoral performance ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Election
!Votes
!%
!Seats
!Position
!Resulting government
|-
|[[1959 Nepalese general election|1959]]
|305,118
|17.1
|{{Infobox political party/seats|19|109|#73a3de}}
|2nd
|{{No2|In opposition}}
|}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{Political parties in Nepal}}
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[[Category:Nepalese Hindu political parties]]
[[Category:Political parties established in 1951]]
[[Category:1951 establishments in Nepal]]
[[Category:Defunct political parties in Nepal]]
[[Category:Monarchist parties in Nepal]]


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