Nepali Janata Dal

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Nepali Janata Dal
नेपाली जनता दल
President Haricharan Shah [1]
HeadquartersAnamnagar [2]
Ideology Progressivism
Nationalism
Socialism
Election symbol
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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]

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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

ElectionLeaderVotesSeatsPositionResulting government
#%#+/-
2008 Hari Charan Shah48,9900.46
2 / 575
18th CPN (Maoist)–CPN (UML)–MJFN
2013 Hari Charan Shah33,2030.35
1 / 575
Decrease2.svg 1Decrease2.svg 23rdCongress–CPN (UML)–RPP
2017 Hari Charan Shah22,0490.23
0 / 275
Decrease2.svg 1Increase2.svg 16thCPN (UML)–CPN (Maoist Centre)

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