Janamorcha Nepal

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Janamorcha Nepal
जनमोर्चा नेपाल
UCPN (Maoist)
Election symbol

Janamorcha Nepal (

Rashtriya Jana Morcha joined together on 10 July 2002.[2]

History

The party was formed with a 51-member ad hoc committee under the chairmanship of Amik Sherchan targeting the proposed general elections in November 2002.[2]

Jana Andolan

During the

Eight Party Alliance and Giriraj Mani Pokharel and Shahi Shrestha joined the interim government as Minister for Health and State Minister for Health respectively.[1]

Constituent Assembly election and dissolution

The party contested the

was later nominated to the Constituent Assembly taking their total to eight seats.

In August 2008, Sherchan was deposed as chairman of Janamorcha Nepal and suspended for three months, after having urged support for Ram Baran Yadav in the presidential election. Lila Mani Pokhrel was appointed acting chairman by the Central Committee of Janamorcha Nepal.[5]

In October 2008, the Janamorcha Nepal and its mother party,

Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). Amik Sherchan, Lila Mani Pokharel and Giriraj Mani Pokharel were inducted into the Standing Committee of the new party.[6]

Electoral performance

Election Leader Votes Seats Position Resulting government
No. % No. +/-
2008 Amik Sherchan 164,381 1.53
7 / 575
9th In coalition with the CPN (Maoist Centre), CPN (UML), MJFN, Sadbhavana, and CPN (United)

See also

References

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  2. ^ a b "UPF, NPF merge". 2003-01-24. Archived from the original on 2003-01-24. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
  3. ^ "Janamorcha Nepal splits up". Archived from the original on May 16, 2008.
  4. ^ "name list of mp". Archived from the original on September 28, 2007.
  5. ^ "Janamorcha to decide Amik's fate today". The Himalayan Times. 2008-08-04. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
  6. ^ "Nepali leading CPN-M unified with minor communist party - People's Daily Online". en.people.cn. Archived from the original on 2017-01-09. Retrieved 2020-12-28.