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Rastriya Sabha राष्ट्रिय सभा | |
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Contiguous: 2nd Class 1, Class 2, Class 3 | |
Type | |
Type | |
Leadership | |
Leader of the House | |
Leader of the Opposition | |
Structure | |
Seats | 59 |
Political groups | Government (31)
Opposition (28)
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Length of term | 6 years |
Elections | |
56 members by indirect single transferable vote, 3 appointed by the President | |
Last election | 25 January 2024 (Class 3) [1] |
Next election | 2026 (Class 1); 2028 (Class 2); 2030 (Class 3) |
Meeting place | |
International Convention Centre, Kathmandu, Nepal | |
Website | |
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Nepalportal |
The National Assembly or Rastriya Sabha (Nepali : राष्ट्रिय सभा, romanized: Rāṣṭriya Sabhā) is the upper house of the Federal Parliament of Nepal, the lower house being the House of Representatives. The composition and powers of the Assembly are established by Part 8 and 9 of the Constitution of Nepal. There are a total of 59 members: 8 members are elected from each of the seven provinces by an electoral college of each province, and three are appointed by the President on recommendation of the government. [2]
Members serve staggered six year terms such that the term of one-third members expires every two years.
The National Assembly was first provisioned by the "Constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal 1990", which replaced the old panchayat system of parliament with a bicameral parliament. [3] The National Assembly under the 1990 Constitution was dissolved on 15 January 2007 and replaced by a unicameral Interim Legislature. Following two Constituent Assembly elections which also served as a unitary Legislature Parliament, the constitution, promulgated on 20 September 2015, provisioned for a National Assembly as the upper house of the federal parliament. [4]
Mahasabha (Nepali : महासभा) was the upper house of the bicameral parliament of the Kingdom of Nepal from 1959 to 1962. [5]
The Revolution of 1951 made the process to enact a new constitution, which was able to transfer all executive powers back to the Shah kings from Rana regime. [6] King Mahendra was unable to resist the increasingly well-orchestrated political demands by the Nepali National Congress for a more democratic and representative government, and was forced to promulgate a new constitution. [6]
The Constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal, 1959 proclaimed on 12 February 1959, describes about Mahasabha (महासभा) as: "There shall be a Parliament which shall consist of His Majesty and two Houses, to be known respectively as the Senate (Maha Sabha) and the House of Representatives (Pratinidhi Sabha)" (Article No. 18, Constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal, 1959). [5]
The constitution of Kingdom of Nepal, 1959 lasted till 16 December 1962. On 16 December 1962, the new Constitution of Kingdom of Nepal, 1962 was proclaimed and the parliament of the Kingdom of Nepal became unicameral. [7] Mahasabha couldn't continue more than two years.
Rastriya Panchayat was a constitution introduce on December 16, 1962, by King Mahendra. [8] A four-tier system of indirectly elected councils was established from the village to the national level. [9] The Rastriya Panchayat declared Nepal a Hindu state. The people's movement of 1990 brought an end to absolute monarchy and Panchayat system.
The qualifications for being a member of National Assembly are laid out in Article 87 of the constitution and the National Assembly Member Election Act, 2017: [10]
Each of the seven provinces elects 8 members each and Government of Nepal nominates 3 members and recommends to the president for approval.
The electoral college consists of members of the provincial assembly and chairperson/mayor and vice-chairperson/deputy mayor of the local bodies within the province. Each provincial assembly member's vote has a weight of forty eight whereas each chairperson/mayor/vice-chairperson/deputy mayor's vote has a weight of eighteen.
Out of the eight members from each province, three must be women, one must be from the Dalit community, and one must be a disabled person or from a minority community. Each elector gets four ballots; one for the three open seats, one for the three female seats, one for the dalit seat and one for the disabled or minority seat. The three open and three female seats are filled by single transferable vote, the two other seats by FPTP.
The election is conducted by the Election Commission. [11]
Name | Party | Took office | Left office | |
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Maha Sabha | ||||
Dambar Bahadur Singh | Nominated by King Mahendra | 20 July 1959 | 15 December 1960 | |
Parliament of the Kingdom of Nepal | ||||
Beni Bahadur Karki | Nepali Congress | 30 June 1991 | 13 July 1999 | |
Mohammad Mohsin | Rastriya Prajatantra Party | 12 August 1999 [13] | 26 June 2002 | |
Federal Parliament of Nepal | ||||
Ganesh Prasad Timilsina | CPN (Unified Marxist Leninist) | 15 March 2018 | 4 March 2024 | |
Narayan Prasad Dahal | CPN (Maoist Centre) | 12 March 2024 | Incumbent |
Name | Party | Took office | Left office | |
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Maha Sabha | ||||
Kamala Rana | Nominated by King Mahendra | 21 July 1959 | 15 December 1962 | |
Parliament of the Kingdom of Nepal | ||||
Aishwarya Lal Pradhananga | Nepali Congress | 4 July 1991 | 30 December 1991 | |
Dilip Kumar Shahi | Nepali Congress | 20 March 1992 | 26 June 1997 | |
Chiranjibi Prasad Rijal | Nepali Congress | 27 July 1997 | 27 June 2001 | |
Ramprit Paswan | CPN (Unified Marxist Leninist) | 10 August 2001 | 24 April 2006 | |
Federal Parliament of Nepal | ||||
Shashikala Dahal | CPN (Maoist Centre) | 18 March 2018 | 4 March 2022 | |
Urmila Aryal | CPN (Maoist Centre) | 6 February 2023 | 28 March 2024 [14] | |
Bimala Ghimire | CPN (Unified Marxist Leninist) | 10 April 2024 [15] | Incumbent |
Party | Parliamentary party leader | Members [16] | |
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CPN (Maoist Centre) | Narayan Kaji Shrestha | 18 [lower-alpha 1] | |
Nepali Congress | Krishna Prasad Sitaula [17] | 16 | |
CPN (Unified Marxist Leninist) | Devendra Dahal | 11 [lower-alpha 1] | |
CPN (Unified Socialist) | Beduram Bhusal | 8 | |
People's Socialist Party | 3 | ||
Loktantrik Samajwadi Party [18] | 1 | ||
Rastriya Janamorcha | 1 | ||
Independent | 1 [lower-alpha 1] | ||
Total | 59 |
Province | Seats held | |||||||
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Open | Women | Dalit | D/M | |||||
Koshi | ||||||||
Madhesh | ||||||||
Bagmati | ||||||||
Gandaki | ||||||||
Lumbini | ||||||||
Karnali | ||||||||
Sudurpashchim | ||||||||
Nominated |
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