1st Karnali Provincial Assembly

1st Karnali Provincial Assembly
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Overview
Legislative body	Karnali Provincial Assembly
Jurisdiction	Karnali Province, Nepal
Meeting place	Irrigation Division Office, Birendranagar, Surkhet District
Term	4 February 2018 – September 2022
Election	2017 provincial elections
Government	Mahendra Bahadur Shahi cabinet Jeevan Bahadur Shahi cabinet
Website	pga.karnali.gov.np
Provincial Assembly
Members	40
Speaker	Raj Bahadur Shahi (UML)
Deputy Speaker	Pushpa Bahadur Gharti (Maoist)
Chief Minister	Mahendra Bahadur Shahi (Maoist) Jeevan Bahadur Shahi (Congress)
Leader of the Opposition	Jeevan Bahadur Shahi (Congress) Yam Lal Kandel (UML)

The first Karnali Provincial Assembly was elected by the 2017 provincial elections. 40 members were elected to the assembly, 24 of whom were elected through direct elections and 16 of whom were elected through the party list proportional representation system. The term of the assembly started on 4 February 2018 and ended in September 2022. Mahendra Bahadur Shahi from the CPN (Maoist Centre) and Jeevan Bahadur Shahi from the Nepali Congress served as chief ministers during the term of the assembly.^[1][2] Raj Bahadur Shahi served as the speaker of the assembly and Pushpa Bahadur Gharti served as the deputy speaker.^[3]

Composition

Party		Seats
		After election	At dissolution
	CPN (UML)	20	13
	CPN (Maoist Centre)	13	11
	Nepali Congress	6	6
	CPN (Unified Socialist)	—	3
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party	1	1
	Vacant	—	6
Total		40	40

Leaders

Speaker

• Speaker of the Provincial Assembly: Hon. Raj Bahadur Shahi^[3]
  • Deputy Speaker of the Provincial Assembly: Pushpa Ghari Bista^[4]

Parliamentary Party Leaders

• Leader of the House (Nepali Congress): Hon. Jeevan Bahadur Shahi^[4]
• Leader of Opposition (CPN (UML)): Yam Lal Kandel^[4]
• Parliamentary Party Leader (CPN (Maoist Centre)): Mahendra Bahadur Shahi
• Parliamentary Party Leader (Rastriya Prajatantra Party): Soshila Shahi

Whips

• Government Chief Whip (Nepali Congress): Him Bahadur Shahi
  • Whip (Nepali Congress): Amrita Shahi^[4]
• Opposition Chief Whip (CPN(UML)): Gulab Jung Shah^[5]

Members

Constituency/PR group	Member	Party
Khas Arya	Amrita Shahi		Nepali Congress
Khas Arya	Badami Kwari Bohara		CPN (UML)
Khas Arya	Bimala KC		CPN (Maoist Centre)
Surkhet 2(B)	Binda Man Bista		CPN (Maoist Centre)
Dolpa 1(B)	Bir Bahadur Shahi		CPN (Maoist Centre)
Mugu 1(B)	Chandra Bahadur Shahi		CPN (Unified Socialist)
Humla 1(A)	Dal Rawal		CPN (UML)
Mugu 1(A)	Dan Singh Pariyar		CPN (UML)
Khas Arya	Devi Wali		CPN (Unified Socialist)
Indigenous peoples	Dinbandhu Shrestha		Nepali Congress
Jajarkot 1(A)	Ganesh Prasad Singh		CPN (Maoist Centre)
Western Rukum 1(B)	Gopal Sharma		CPN (Maoist Centre)
Salyan 1(A)	Gulab Jung Shah		CPN (UML)
Khas Arya	Him Bahadur Shahi		Nepali Congress
Dalit	Jhowa Kami		Nepali Congress
Humla 1(B)	Jeevan Bahadur Shahi		Nepali Congress
Jajarkot 1(B)	Karbir Shahi		CPN (UML)
Khas Arya, Backward area	Kaushilawati Khatri		CPN (UML)
Surkhet 1(B)	Khadka Bahadur Khatri		CPN (UML)
Khas Arya	Krishna Shah (Acharya)		CPN (Maoist Centre)
Kalikot 1(B)	Mahendra Bahadur Shahi		CPN (Maoist Centre)
Indigenous peoples	Mina Singh Rakhal		CPN (UML)
Jumla 1(A)	Naresh Bhandari		CPN (Maoist Centre)
Jumla 1(B)	Padam Bahadur Rokaya		CPN (Unified Socialist)
Khas Arya	Padma Khadka		CPN (UML)
Indigenous peoples, Backward area	Pushpa Gharti (Bista)		CPN (Maoist Centre)
Dailekh 2(B)	Raj Bahadur Shahi		CPN (UML)
Dalit	Raju Nepali		CPN (UML)
Western Rukum 1(A)	Rato Kami		CPN (Maoist Centre)
Dalit	Sita Kumari Nepali		CPN (Maoist Centre)
Khas Arya	Soshila Shahi		Rastriya Prajatantra Party
Dailekh 2(A)	Sushil Kumar Thapa		CPN (UML)
Khas Arya	Yagya Bahadur Budha Chhetri		Nepali Congress
Surkhet 2(A)	Yam Lal Kandel		CPN (UML)

Changes

Constituency/PR group	MPA	Party		Date seat vacated	Cause of vacation	New MPA	Party
Dailekh 1(A)	Dharma Raj Regmi		CPN (Maoist Centre)	12 April 2021	Resignation[6]
Dailekh 1(B)	Amar Bahadur Thapa		CPN (UML)	23 April 2021	Expelled by party[7]
Salyan 1(B)	Prakash Jwala
Dolpa 1(A)	Nanda Singh Budha
Kalikot 1(A)	Kurma Raj Shahi
Surkhet 1(A)	Thammar Bahadur Bista		CPN (Maoist Centre)	20 March 2022	Expelled by party[8]

See also

• Karnali Province
• 2017 Nepalese provincial elections

References

1. "Shahi appointed Province 6 CM". The Himalayan Times. 16 February 2018. Archived from the original on 8 July 2021. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
2. "Province 1, Karnali get new chief ministers". kathmandupost.com. Retrieved 2022-06-03.
3. "Raj Bahadur Shahi elected unopposed as Speaker of Province 6". Retrieved 2018-03-27.
4. "प्रदेशसभा सदस्य | प्रदेश सभा सचिवालय". pga.karnali.gov.np. Retrieved 2022-04-11.
5. "No-confidence motion against Karnali chief minister to be withdrawn". The Himalayan Times. 2020-10-21. Retrieved 2021-01-01.
6. रातोपाटी. "कर्णालीका सांसद धर्मराज रेग्मी पदमुक्त". RatoPati (in Nepali). Retrieved 2022-04-11.
7. RSS. "UML takes action against four Karnali Province Assembly members". My Republica. Retrieved 2022-04-11.
8. "Maoist Karnali Chief Whip Bista suspended". English.MakaluKhabar.com. Retrieved 2022-04-11.