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List of National Assembly members from Gandaki Province

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The National Assembly (Rastriya Sabha) is the Upper House of the Parliament of Nepal. Gandaki Province elects 8 seats and they are indirectly elected by the an electoral college of each province of Gandaki Province.

Out of the eight members from Gandaki province, three must be women, one must be from the Dalit community, and one must be a disabled person or from a minority community. Each elector gets four ballots; one for the three open seats, one for the three female seats, one for the dalit seat and one for the disabled or minority seat. The three open and three female seats are filled by Single transferable vote, the two other seats by FPTP.

Current Members

Keys:  Congress (4)  NCP (3)  CPN (UML) (1)

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Member Party Category Date of appointment Date of retirement
Jagat Timilsina Congress Open 9 March 2026
Samjhana Devkota CPN (UML) Women 9 March 2026
Padma Bahadur Pariyar Congress Dalit 4 March 2024
Manrupa Sharma NCP Women 4 March 2024
Kiran Babu Shrestha Congress Open 4 March 2024
Bhuwan Sunar NCP Dalit [a] 4 March 2022
Kamala Pant Congress Women [a] 4 March 2022
Suresh Ale Magar NCP Open [a] 4 March 2022
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Former Members

More information Member, Party ...
Member Party Category Date of appointment Date of retirement Notes
Bhagwati Neupane NCP
CPN (UML)
Women [b] 4 March 2020 18 January 2026 Chief Whip of CPN (UML)[2]
Narayan Kaji Shrestha NCP
CPN (MC)
Open[b] 4 March 2020 18 January 2026
Ganesh Prasad Timilsina NCP
CPN (UML)
Open 4 March 2018 3 March 2024
Prakash Pant Congress Disability or Ethnic Minority 4 March 2018 3 March 2024
Dipa Gurung NCP
CPN (UML)
Women 4 March 2018 3 March 2024
Dina Nath Sharma NCP
CPN (MC)
Open 4 March 2018 3 March 2022
Shanti Adhikari NCP
CPN (UML)
Women 4 March 2018 3 March 2022
Khim Bahadur BK NCP
CPN (MC)
Dalit 4 March 2018 3 March 2022
Surendra Raj Pandey Congress Open 4 March 2018 3 March 2020
Brinda Rana Magar Congress Women 4 March 2018 3 March 2020
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Notes

  1. Succession of the four-year-term seat via the 2022 Nepalese National Assembly election[1]
  2. Succession of the two-year-term seat via the 2020 Nepalese National Assembly election[3]

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