Ganga Chaudhary Satgauwa

Ganga Chaudhary Satgauwa (Nepali: गंगा चौधरी सत्गौवा), popularly known as Ganga Chaudhary is a Nepali politician and a member of the House of Representatives of the federal parliament of Nepal.[2] She is also a member of the Women and Social Welfare Committee of the parliament.[3]

Ganga Chaudhary Satgauwa
गंगा चौधरी सत्गौवा
Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha for
CPN (UML) party list
In office
4 March 2018 – 18 September 2022
Member of Constituent Assembly for
Tharuhat Terai Party list
In office
21 January 2014 – 14 October 2017
Personal details
Born (1979-06-01) 1 June 1979 (age 45)[1]
NationalityNepali
Political partyCPN (UML)
Other political
affiliations
Tharuhat Terai Party
Naya Shakti

She was elected under the proportional representation system from CPN UML of the left alliance in the 2017 legislative elections. She had defected to UML immediately prior to the election, without informing her previous party Naya Sakti Party Nepal, which also included her name in the list of party candidates.[4] Chaudhary later informed the election commission of her allegiance to UML.[4]

Chaudhary was previously elected to the 2nd Constituent Assembly also through the proportional representation system, from Tharuhat Terai Party Nepal.[4][5] After the promulgation of the constitution, she led the Parliamentary legislative committee in the Legislature parliament (which was formed as per the redefined role of the constituent assembly).[6][7] She was accused of acting against party interests and trying to form a breakaway faction, in 2016, and expelled from the party.[6]

Following the expulsion, she had joined the Naya Sakti Party and was considered close to Baburam Bhattarai.[4] However, owing to the possibility that the party wouldn't cross the required three percent threshold of voter support in the 2017 elections, she chose to go back to CPN UML, the party she was previously affiliated to before she joined the Tharu nationalist struggle.[4] Following the merger of CPN UML with the Maoist party to form Nepal Communist Party (NCP), she represents the newly formed party in parliament.[3]

References

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  1. ^ संघीय संसद सदस्य, २०७४ परिचयात्मक पुस्तिका [Federal Parliament Members 2017 Introduction Booklet] (PDF) (in Nepali). Nepal: Federal Parliament Secretariat. 2021. p. 270.
  2. ^ "Preparations almost over for first historic federal parliament session". Setopati. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Women And Social Committee". hr.parliament.gov.np. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Single person featured on PR closed lists of UML, Naya Shakti – OnlineKhabar". 5 November 2017. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  5. ^ "The Rising Nepal: Opposition parties slam the govt. policies and programmes". therisingnepal.org.np. Archived from the original on 6 May 2019. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  6. ^ a b "Tharuhat Tarai Party Nepal expels lawmaker Ganga Chaudhary Satgauwa". The Himalayan Times. 25 December 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  7. ^ "Concerns raised, reports tabled in Parliament meeting". The Himalayan Times. 10 April 2017. Retrieved 13 August 2019.