Kamal Rana
Kamal Rana | |
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Member of the Senate | |
In office 1959–1960 | |
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Born | 1928 Tansen, Nepal |
Kamal Rana (Nepali: कमल राना, born 1928) was a Nepalese politician. She was appointed to the Senate in 1959, becoming its first female member. She and Dwarika Devi Thakurani, who had been elected to the House of Representatives were the first women in the Nepalese parliament.
Biography
Rana was born in Tansen in 1928, the daughter of Raja Tarak Bahadur Shah and Dibyashori Shah.[1] Related to the royal family,[2] she married Meen Shumsher J.B. Rana, an army general and earned a master's degree in political science.[3][4] She established the Women's Volunteer Services in 1952,[5] and in the same year was appointed vice-chair of the National Assembly.[6] She later served in the Advisory Assembly from 1958 to 1959.[4]
Following the introduction of the 1959 constitution, a bicameral parliament was created with an elected House of Representatives and an appointed Senate. In the
Following the 1980 referendum on the system of government, she was appointed to the eleven-member Constitution Reform Recommendation Commission by King Birendra.[3]
References
- ^ Ridhi Charan Pokhrel (1982) Nepalese Women, p137
- ^ a b Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal (2004) Femmes et politique en Inde et au Népal pp92–93
- ^ a b Lok Raj Baral (1983) Nepal's Politics of Referendum: A Study of Groups, Personalities & Trends, p112
- ^ a b c Population and Development, Centre for Economic Development and Administration, 1971, p181
- ^ Bishnu R. Upreti, Drishti Upreti & Yamuna Ghale (2020) "Nepali Women in Politics: Success and Challenges", Journal of International Women's Studies, volume 21, issue 2, pp76–93
- ^ Nizam Ahmed (2017) Women in Governing Institutions in South Asia: Parliament, Civil Service and Local Government p82
- ^ "Woman honoured", The Singapore Free Press, 22 July 1959