The National Assembly (Rastriya Sabha) is the Upper House of the Parliament of Nepal. Gandaki Province elects 8 seats and they are indirectly elected by the an electoral college of each province of Gandaki Province.
Out of the eight members from Gandaki 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:
Member PartyCategoryDate of appointmentDate of retirementJagat TimilsinaOpen9 March 2026Samjhana DevkotaWomen9 March 2026Padma Bahadur Pariyar Dalit4 March 2024Manrupa SharmaWomen4 March 2024Kiran Babu ShresthaOpen4 March 2024Bhuwan SunarDalit 4 March 2022Kamala Pant Women 4 March 2022Suresh Ale Magar Open 4 March 2022
Former Members Member PartyCategoryDate of appointmentDate of retirementNotesBhagwati Neupane CPN (UML) Women 4 March 202018 January 2026Chief Whip of CPN (UML)Narayan Kaji Shrestha CPN (MC) Open4 March 202018 January 2026 Parliamentary Party leader of CPN (MC) Deputy prime minister and Minister for Physical Infrastructure and TransportGanesh Prasad Timilsina CPN (UML) Open4 March 20183 March 2024Prakash PantDisability or Ethnic Minority4 March 20183 March 2024Dipa Gurung CPN (UML) Women4 March 20183 March 2024Dina Nath Sharma CPN (MC) Open4 March 20183 March 2022Shanti Adhikari CPN (UML) Women4 March 20183 March 2022Khim Bahadur BK CPN (MC) Dalit4 March 20183 March 2022Surendra Raj Pandey Open4 March 20183 March 2020Brinda Rana Magar Women4 March 20183 March 2020
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