List of National Assembly members from Lumbini Province
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The National Assembly (Rastriya Sabha) is the Upper House of the Parliament of Nepal. Lumbini Province elects 8 seats and they are indirectly elected by the an electoral college of each province of Lumbini Province.
Out of the eight members from Lumbini 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) CPN (UML) (1) NCP (2) Janamorcha (1)
| Member | Party | Category | Date of appointment | Date of retirement | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basudev Ghimire | Congress | Disability/Ethnic Minority | 9 March 2026 | ||
| Ram Kumari Jhakri | CPN (UML) | Women | 9 March 2026 | ||
| Chandra Bahadur K.C. | Congress | Open | 9 March 2026 | ||
| Jhakku Prasad Subedi | NCP | Open | 4 March 2024 | ||
| Vishnu Kumari Sapkota | Congress | Women | 4 March 2024 | ||
| Yubaraj Sharma | Congress | Open[a] | 4 March 2022 | ||
| Tul Prasad Bishwakarma | Janamorcha | Dalit [a] | 4 March 2022 | ||
| Rajya Laxmi Gaire | NCP | Women [a] | 4 March 2022 | ||
Former Members
| Member | Party | Category | Date of appointment | Date of retirement | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kumar Dasaudi | CPN (UML) | Open | 10 February 2023[2] | 4 March 2024 | ||
| Dirgha Narayan Pandey | Congress | Open | 9 June 2021[3] | 3 March 2022 | ||
| Bimala Ghimire | NCP CPN (UML) |
Women [b] | 4 March 2020 | 3 March 2026 |
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| Gopal Bhattarai | NCP CPN (UML) |
Open[b] | 4 March 2020 | 3 March 2026 | ||
| Jag Prasad Sharma | NCP CPN (Maoist Centre) |
Disability or Ethnic Minority [b] | 4 March 2020 | 3 March 2026 | ||
| Anita Devkota | Congress | Women | 4 March 2018 | 3 March 2024 | ||
| Ram Lakhan Harijan | NCP CPN (UML) |
Dalit | 4 March 2018 | 3 March 2022 | ||
| Komal Oli | NCP CPN (UML) |
Women | 4 March 2018 | 3 March 2022 | ||
| Khim Lal Bhattarai | NCP CPN (UML) |
Open | 4 March 2018 | 10 October 2022[5] | ||
| Chandra Bahadur Khadka | NCP CPN (Maoist Centre) |
Open | 4 March 2018 | 28 April 2021[6] | ||
| Raj Kumar Kunwar | NCP CPN (Maoist Centre) |
Disability or Ethnic Minority | 4 March 2018 | 3 March 2020 | ||
| Mina Budha | NCP CPN (UML) |
Women | 4 March 2018 | 3 March 2020 | ||
| Durga Prasad Upadhyaya | Congress | Open | 4 March 2018 | 3 March 2020 | ||
Notes
- Succession of the four-year-term seat via the 2022 Nepalese National Assembly election[1]
- Succession of the two-year-term seat via the 2020 Nepalese National Assembly election[4]