Rastriya Janamukti Party

Rastriya Janamukti Party

President	Malwar Singh Thapa^[1]
Secretary	Keshav Suryavansi
Founded	1990
Headquarters	Dhobighat, Lalitpur
Constituent Assembly	2 / 601
Website
www.janamukti.org
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Rastriya Janamukti Party (National Emancipation Party) is a political party in Nepal. The party was formed in 1990 by the Janjati leader, M. S. Thapa Magar and Gore Bahadur Khapangi as the Nepal Rastriya Janamukti Morcha (Nepal National Janajati Liberation Front), following the Jana Andolan. The Front petitioned the constitutional committee, requesting a federal constitution.^[2]^[3]

In the 1999 parliamentary election, Rastriya Janamukti Party fielded 130 candidates.^[2] They got 92567 votes (1% of the national vote), but no-one was elected.^[4]

In the 2008 Constituent Assembly election, the party won 2 seats through the Proportional Representation vote.^[5]

In the 2013 Constituent Assembly election, Jham Bahadur Gurung was appoint from the party for Rupandehi-3 finishing at third place.^[6]

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Political parties in Nepal

Represented in the Constituent Assembly 2014 (601)	Nepali Congress (196) Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) (175) Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (80) Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal (24) Madhesi Jana Adhikar Forum Democratic (14) Rastriya Prajatantra Party (13) Tarai-Madhesh Loktantrik Party (11) Madhesi Jana Adhikar Forum, Nepal (10) Sadbhavana Party (6) Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) (5) Federal Socialist Party (5) Rastriya Janamorcha (3) Tarai-Madhesh Loktantrik Party Nepal Communist Party of Nepal Marxist−Leninist (Samajbadi) Communist Party of Nepal (United) (3) Nepal Workers Peasants Party (4) Rastriya Janashakti Party Communist Party of Nepal (Unified) Nepal Sadbhavana Party (Anandidevi) Nepali Janata Dal (1) Rastriya Janamukti Party (2) Sanghiya Loktantrik Rastriya Manch (1) Chure Bhawar Rastriya Ekta Party (1) Dalit Janajati Party (1) Bahujan Shakti Party (1) Nepa Rastriya Party (1) Nepal Loktantrik Samajbadi Dal (1) Nepal Pariwar Dal (1) Samajtantrik Prajatantrik Janata Party (1)

Other active parties/agitators	Communist Party of Nepal—Maoist Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)(2014) Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist) (2006) Communist Party of Nepal (Masal) (2006) Hindu Prajatantrik Party Mongol National Organisation Tamsaling Nepal Rastriya Dal Jana Jagaran Party Nepal

Dissolved parties	Communist Party of Nepal (Unity Centre–Masal) Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist) Communist Party of Nepal Marxist−Leninist (Samajbadi) Communist Party of Nepal (2006)

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