Rastriya Panchayat
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Rastriya Panchayat was a legislature during the Panchayat regime of Nepal that functioned from 1960 to 1990. [1] Its head office was in the Gallery Baithak in Singha Durbar, Kathmandu. In the 1980s, it consisted of more than 120 members among which 105 members were directly elected by the people, while the king was to nominate 20 percent of its members, i.e. 19 members were nominated by the monarch.
The Rastriya Panchayat was dissolved by the then King Birendra after the 1990 People's Movement I in 1990 [2] and replaced by a bicameral legislature with a fully elected House of Representatives (Nepali: Pratinidhi Sabha).
Some Notable Rastriya Panchayat Members
- Dr. Tulsi Giri (First Prime Minister of Panchayat System)
- Surya Bahadur Thapa (Former Prime Minister)
- Kirti Nidhi Bista (Former Prime Minister)
- Nagendra Prasad Rijal (Former Prime Minister)
- Lokendra Bahadur Chand (Former Prime Minister)
- Marich Man Singh Shrestha (Former Prime Minister)
- Nawaraj Subedi (Former Defense Minister and Chairman of Rastriya Panchayat)
- Giri Prasad Burathoki (Former Defense and Assistant Minister)
- Padam Thakuratai
- Hem Bahadur Malla
- Bhim Prasad Gauchan [3]
- Dharma Prasad Upadhyaya [4]
- Dambar Bam [5]
- Bhim Bahadur Shrestha [6]
- Ram Raja Prasad Singh [7]
- Dr. Prakash Chandra Lohani [8]
References
Dil Bahadur Lama