Sajha Bibeksheel Party  Sajha Bibeksheel Party () is a political party in Nepal. It was founded as Bibeksheel Sajha Party on 26 July 2017, after the merger of Bibeksheel Nepali Dal and Sajha Party. Bibeksheel Nepali Dal was founded in 2013 with an aim to "change the country’s politics". The founder of the party, Ujwal Bahadur Thapa, ran as an independent in the 2013 Constituent Assembly elections along with four other candidates in different constituencies in the Kathmandu Valley. After the elections, the party registered with the Election Commission of Nepal. It became active in various political causes after the elections. The party was involved in relief distribution after the 2015 Nepal earthquake and protested against the delay by the government in reconstruction on the anniversary of the earthquake. The party also protested against controversial commissioner of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority, Lokman Singh Karki, and also expressed solidarity with corruption crusader Dr. Govinda K.C. The party also contested the 2017 local elections, with their mayoral candidate for Kathmandu, 21-year old Ranju Darshana, finishing third with 23,439 votes. Sajha Party was founded in 2017 by the former editor-in-chief of BBC Nepali Service, Rabindra Mishra. It was formed as an "alternative" party and guided by the welfare economy and inspired by global norms of democracy. The party contested the 2017 local election as independents with Ramesh Maharjan and Kishore Thapa finishing third and fourth in Kathmandu and Lalitpur elections respectively. Deputy mayor candidate Sobha Shakya finished in second place in Lalitpur, and Nirupama Yadav finished third in Kathmandu. The party was not as successful outside the Kathmandu Valley with their candidates in Itahari getting less than 500 votes. The two parties announced their merger on 26 July 2017, with the party to be led under the joint leadership of Rabindra Mishra and Ujwal Bahadur Thapa. The party adopted scales as their electoral symbol. In the 2017 legislative elections, the party contested 60 seats but won none. Party founder and leader Rabindra Mishra lost in Kathmandu to Nepali Congress leader Prakash Man Singh by a margin of just 818 votes. The party won 212,336 votes under proportional representation and finished with the sixth highest number of votes in the country.