Padma Narayan Chaudhary

Padma Narayan Chaudhary
पद्म नारायण चौधरी
Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha for Nepali Congress party list
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 March 2018
Member of Constituent Assembly
In office 21 January 2014 – 14 October 2017
Preceded by	Laxman Mahato
Succeeded by	Pradeep Giri
Constituency	Siraha 1
Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha
In office May 1991 – May 1999
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Ram Chandra Yadav
Constituency	Siraha 1
Personal details
Born	(1947-11-16) 16 November 1947 (age 77)[1]
Nationality	Nepali
Political party	Nepali Congress

Padma Narayan Chaudhary (Tharu) (born 1948) is a Nepali politician and a member of the House of Representatives of the Federal parliament of Nepal.[2][3] He was elected from Nepali Congress under the proportional representation system.[4][5] Following his election to parliament, he was appointed the coordinator for the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock in the shadow cabinet of the main opposition Nepali Congress.[6]

In the 2013 Constituent Assembly election, he was elected from Siraha-1 constituency under the first-past-the-post system. He had previously won the 1991 and 1994 parliamentary elections from the same constituency but lost in the 1999 and 2008 elections.[7]

References

1. संघीय संसद सदस्य, २०७४ परिचयात्मक पुस्तिका [Federal Parliament Members 2017 Introduction Booklet] (PDF) (in Nepali). Nepal: Federal Parliament Secretariat. 2021. p. 270.
2. "Padma Narayan Choudhary (Tharu)". hr.parliament.gov.np. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
3. "Deuba, Poudel file candidacies for Congress PP leader". kathmandupost.ekantipur.com.np. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
4. "Names of winner PR candidates recommended". The Himalayan Times. 2018-02-12. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
5. Republica. "NC repeats old faces under PR category". My Republica. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
6. "NC forms shadow government". The Himalayan Times. 2019-05-21. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
7. "Padma Narayan Chaudhary". election2013.ujyaaloonline.com. Retrieved 2019-11-15.