. There are very few candidates from the Dalit community in the House of Representatives election scheduled for March 4. The Nepali Congress has fielded Joint General Secretary Prakash Rasaili Snehi as its candidate from Bajhang.
Chakra Snehi has been fielded from Dadeldhura and Bimala BK from Bardiya-2.TAG_OPEN_div_18 The party has fielded Padam Bishwakarma from Syangja-2 and Man Bahadur Sunar from Kanchanpur-3. The Rastriya Swatantra Party (Rastriya Swatantra Party) has fielded Khagendra Sunar as its candidate from Banke-3.
Dalit movement leader and former ambassador Padam Sundas said that the major political parties have created a vote bank for the Dalit community but have always been deprived of opportunities.TAG_OPEN_div_16 “Dalit leaders have the same contribution as other communities in the party, but they don’t get tickets during elections,” he says. There is a kind of discrimination in giving tickets, even if we look at the Dalit population, it is 13 percent. ”
Bindu Pariyar, chairperson of Nepal Dalit Women Upliftment Association (ADWAN), commented that the Nepali Communist Party and the CPN-UML, which claimed to have been fighting for the rights of workers, poor, peasants, Dalits, women, indigenous nationalities and Madhesis, have been illiberal towards Dalits.TAG_OPEN_div_14 In this way, the representation of the Dalit community in the House of Representatives will be reduced if the Dalit community is not given direct tickets. According to him, the constitutional provision of 33 per cent women in the parliament should also be made mandatory in the case of Dalits.
There were 15 (TAG_OPEN_div_12 5.81 percent) representation in the House of Representatives in 2079 BS. In the 2007 Constituent Assembly (CA), 50 Dalits (8.32 per cent) were present. In 2013, there were 40 (6.65 percent) members in the Constituent Assembly and 20 (7.27 percent) in the House of Representatives.
If we look at this number, the representation of Dalits in the parliament is gradually declining.TAG_OPEN_div_10 Only eight Dalits are present in the 59-member National Assembly. Although Article 42 (1) of the constitution stipulates that the socially backward people will have the right to participate in the state bodies on the basis of the principle of inclusion, it has not been implemented in practice.
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