Nepali Janata Dal

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

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]

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

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
Decrease 1 Decrease 23rd Congress–CPN (UML)–RPP
2017 Hari Charan Shah 22,049 0.23
0 / 275
Decrease 1 Increase 16th CPN (UML)–CPN (Maoist Centre)

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