Kathmandu, July 22 -- Rastriya Swatantra Party has continued its signature campaign as a strategy to gain public support in favour of the party chief Rabi Lamichhane, who has been in judicial custody for more than four months over high-profile cooperative fraud allegations.

Portraying the case as a politically motivated attack, the RSP launched the signature drive that, according to the party, is garnering strong public support.

The campaign was launched on June 21-coinciding with the party's third anniversary-with the release of a 20-page public appeal authored by Lamichhane himself.

In the document, Lamichhane claims that his detention was not based on legal grounds but was motivated with a plan to weaken the RSP, with the major poli...