Nepali Janata Dal

Nepali Janata Dal is a political party in Nepal. The party was established in 1995 as the United People's Party. The party identifies itself as progressive, nationalist and socialist.[2]

Nepali Janata Dal

नेपाली जनता दल
PresidentHaricharan Shah[1]
HeadquartersAnamnagar[2]
IdeologyProgressivism
Nationalism
Socialism
Election symbol

Hari Charan Shah is the party chairman, Kabiraj Timilsina the vice-Chairman, Dipak Raj Pandey the General secretary. In total, the Central Committee of the party has 41 members.[2]

In the 2008 Constituent Assembly election, the NJD won two seats through the proportional representation vote.[3] It got 48990 PR votes (0.46%).[4] The party selected Vishwanath Prasad Agrawal and Gayatri Shah as its representatives in the assembly.[5] Gayatri Shah was the nominated parliamentary leader of the party.

Electoral performance

Nepalese Legislative Elections
See also: House of Representatives (Nepal) and Constituent Assembly of Nepal
Election Leader Votes Seats Position Resulting government
# % # +/-
2008 Hari Charan Shah 48,990 0.46
2 / 575
 18th CPN (Maoist)–CPN (UML)–MJFN
2013 Hari Charan Shah 33,203 0.35
1 / 575
 1 23rd Congress–CPN (UML)–RPP
2017 Hari Charan Shah 22,049 0.23
0 / 275
 1 16th CPN (UML)–CPN (Maoist Centre)

References
  1. United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) : Activities » Activities Update » Activity Details Archived 2008-05-06 at the Wayback Machine
  2. result.nepalelectionportal.org/parties.php?val=18
  4. http://www.nepalresearch.org/politics/background/pr_votes.pdf
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.