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
President	Haricharan Shah[1]
Headquarters	Anamnagar[2]
Ideology	Progressivism Nationalism Socialism
Election symbol
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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.

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
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4. http://www.nepalresearch.org/politics/background/pr_votes.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
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