Nepali Janata Dal
Political party in Nepal From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Political party in Nepal From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 | |
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President | Haricharan Shah[1] |
Headquarters | Anamnagar[2] |
Ideology | Progressivism Nationalism Socialism |
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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.
Election | Leader | Votes | Seats | Position | Resulting government | ||
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# | % | # | +/- | ||||
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 |
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Congress–CPN (UML)–RPP |
2017 | Hari Charan Shah | 22,049 | 0.23 | 0 / 275 |
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CPN (UML)–CPN (Maoist Centre) |
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