Chitra Bahadur K.C.

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Chitra Bahadur K.C. is a Nepalese politician. He is the chairman of the Rashtriya Jana Morcha.^[1]

Chitra Bahadur K.C. contested the Baglung-2 constituency in the 1994 election. He finished second, with 15089 votes.^[2]

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)) in the constituency of Baglung-2 with 24124 votes.^[2]

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.^[3] A conference of the JMN led by Chitra Bahadur K.C. was held in Butwal May 25-26 2006, in which he was elected chairman of this JMN faction.^[4] 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.^[5]

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