Chitra Bahadur K.C.

Honourable
Chitra Bahadur K.C.
चित्रबहादुर के.सी.
Chitra Bahadur K.C. चित्रबहादुर के.सी
Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office
2022
Preceded bySurya Prasad Pathak
ConstituencyBaglung 1
Member of 2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly
In office
21 January 2014 – 14 October 2017
Constituencyparty list
Member of 1st Nepalese Constituent Assembly
In office
28 May 2008 – 28 May 2012
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded byPrakash Sharma Poudel
ConstituencyBaglung 2
Personal details
Born (1941-02-02) 2 February 1941 (age 83)[citation needed]
Nepal
Political partyRastriya Janamorcha

Chitra Bahadur K.C. (Nepali: चित्रबहादुर के.सी.) is a Nepalese politician and former deputy prime minister and minister of poverty alleviation of Nepal. He is current chairman of the Rastriya Janamorcha (राष्ट्रिय जनमाेर्चा).[1][2]

Chitra Bahadur K.C. belonged to the Communist Party of Nepal (Fourth Convention). In the 1983 he sided with Mohan Bikram Singh, and joined the Communist Party of Nepal (Masal).[3] Chitra Bahadur K.C. contested the Baglung-2 constituency in the 1994 election. He finished second, with 15089 votes.[4] He was elected to the Pratinidhi Sabha in the 1999 election, as a candidate of Rashtriya Jana Morcha (the electoral front of the Communist Party of Nepal (Masal) (2006)) in the constituency of Baglung-2 with 24124 votes.[4]

When Janamorcha Nepal was formed in 2002 through the merger of RJM and Samyukta Janamorcha Nepal, Chitra Bahadur K.C. became a member of JMN. When JMN split in 2006, he sided with Communist Party of Nepal (Unity Centre-Masal) (the parent party of JMN) general secretary Mohan Bikram Singh in rejecting participation the Seven Party Alliance government. Effectively JMN was split.[5] A conference of the JMN led by Chitra Bahadur K.C. was held in Butwal 25–26 May 2006, in which he was elected chairman of this JMN faction.[6] The Chitra Bahadur K.C.-led JMN was renamed as the Rashtriya Jana Morcha in 2007.

Chitra Bahadur K.C. won the Baglung-2 seat in the 2008 Constituent Assembly election, the sole RJM candidate to win a seat in the First Past the Post system. He got 12594 votes.[7]

Chitra Bahadur K.C. has been a staunch opponent of Federalism, especially Federalism on the basis of ethnic identity.

  1. ^ United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) : Activities » Activities Update » Activity Details
  2. ^ "Weekly Nepal - Weekly News from Nepal - अखिल नेपाल जनवादी युवा संघको तेस्रो राष्ट्रिय भेला सम्पन्न". Archived from the original on 3 December 2014. Retrieved 11 July 2008.
  3. ^ Rawal, Bhim. The Communist Movement in Nepal: Origin and Development. Kathmandu: Accham-Kathmandu Contact Forum, 2007. p. 87.
  4. ^ a b "Finalised Constituencies With Top Two Candidates". Election.gov.np. Archived from the original on 5 March 2008. Retrieved 30 May 2012.
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  7. ^ The Himlayan Times: Breaking News, Views, Reviews, Sports, Business, Entertainment from Nepal