Nepal Workers Peasants Party नेपाल मजदुर किसान पार्टी | |
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| Abbreviation | NWPP (English) नेमकिपा (Nepali) |
| Chairman | Narayan Man Bijukchhe |
| Founder | Narayan Man Bijukchhe |
| Founded | 23 January 1975 (50 years ago) (1975-01-23) |
| Split from | CPN (Pushpa Lal) |
| Headquarters | Golmadhi,Bhaktapur |
| Newspaper | Majdoor |
| Student wing | Nepal Revolutionary Students' Union |
| Youth wing | Nepal Revolutionary Youths' Union |
| Women's wing | Nepal Revolutionary Women's Union |
| Peasants' wing | Nepal Revolutionary Peasants' Union |
| Cultural wing | Nepal Revolutionary Culturals' Union |
| Teachers' wing | Nepal Revolutionary Teachers' Union |
| Workers' wing | Nepal Revolutionary Workers' Union |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism–Leninism Mao Zedong Thought[1] Juche[2][3] |
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| Pratinidhi Sabha | 1 / 275 |
| Provincial Assembly of Bagmati Province | 3 / 110 |
| Mayors/Chairs | 1 / 753 |
| Councillors | 85 / 35,011 |
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TheNepal Workers Peasants Party (NWPP), also known as theNepal Workers' and Peasants' Party and theNepal Majdoor Kisan Party[4] (Nepali:नेपाल मजदुर किसान पार्टी; abbr.नेमकिपा,Nemakipa), is acommunistpolitical party in Nepal. The party was founded on 23 January 1975 byNarayan Man Bijukchhe and draws most of its support fromBhaktapur.[5] The party is sympathetic to theWorkers' Party of Korea and has declaredJuche to be a "directional ideology".
The Nepal Workers' and Peasants' Party was founded as the Nepal Workers and Peasants Organization (NPWO) in Nepal on 23 January 1975.[6] The NPWO broke away from theCommunist Party of Nepal (Pushpa Lal) in protest overPushpa Lal Shrestha's support for Indian intervention inEast Pakistan, together with theProletarian Revolutionary Organisation, Nepal, and theMazdoor Kisan Sangram Samiti. In 1981, the NWPO split, and two separate parties came into existence. One party was led byNarayan Man Bijukchhe, which later became the Nepal Workers' and Peasants' Party and the other was led byHareram Sharma.[7]
Bijukchhe's NWPO formed part of theUnited Left Front and took part in the 1990Jana Andolan uprising. It participated in the formation of theSamyukta Janamorcha Nepal but left shortly before the1991 election.[8] The group changed its name to the Nepal Workers Peasants Party and contested the election separately. It fielded 30 candidates, out of whom two were elected. The party received a total of 91,335 votes, or 1.25%.
Ahead of the 1992 elections to local bodies, the NWPP formed an electoral coalition with the Samyukta Janamorcha Nepal,Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist),Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist), andNepal Communist League.[9]
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NWPP was active in the protest movements against repression inNepal and is a member of theSeven Party Alliance which spearheaded the 2006Loktantra Andolan. After the restoration of a democratic system, the party decided not to join the government, but stayed in the Seven Party Alliance, which later converted into theEight Party Alliance. When theinterim legislature was formed in January 2007, Bijukchhe was joined by three other nominated MPs.[10]
The party contested the2008 Constituent Assembly elections and won four seats to theConstituent Assembly. The party also had one nominated member. In the2013 Constituent Assembly elections, the party again won four seats. The party voted for Khadga Prasad Oli in the prime minister election on 12 October 2015.[11]
In the2017 local elections, the party won 99 seats across local governments and won one mayoral position, withSunil Prajapati being elected as the mayor ofBhaktapur Municipality.[12] The party also contested the2017 legislativeand provincial elections, winning one seat in theHouse of Representatives and two seats to theProvincial Assembly of Province No. 3.[13][14]
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The Nepal Workers Peasants Party is a communist party, with the party taking major inspiration from theChineseMao Zedong Thought ideology. The guiding economic principle of the party isscientific socialism.[15]
In recent years, the party has incorporated theJuche idea as a guiding principle.[2] After visitingNorth Korea, party leaderNarayan Man Bijukchhe has attempted to implement the governing policies ofJuche into the city ofBhaktapur.[2] Portraits of theKim family can be found at the party headquarters in Bhaktapur.[16] The party seespolitical independence andeconomic self-sufficiency as the cornerstones of development. The party also sees India as animperialist force working against Nepalese interests.[17]
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TheNepal Revolutionary Students Union (Nepali:नेपाल क्रान्तिकारी विद्यार्थी संघ;abbr.NRSU andनेक्राविसंघ) is the party's student wing.[18]
List of Pratinidhi Sabha members from Nepal Majdoor Kishan Party
| No. | Name | Constituency | Appointment date | Retirement date |
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| 1. | Prem Suwal | Bhaktapur 1 | 2022 | 2027 |
| Election | Leader | Constituency votes | Party list votes | Seats | Position | Resulting government | |||||
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| No. | % | % change | No. | % | % change | No. | +/– | ||||
| 1991 | Narayan Man Bijukchhe | 91,335 | 1.25 | 2 / 205 | 8th | In opposition | |||||
| 1994 | Narayan Man Bijukchhe | 75,072 | 0.98 |  0.27 | 4 / 205 |  2 | 7th | In opposition | |||
| 1999 | Narayan Man Bijukchhe | 48,015 | 0.56 | 0.42 | 1 / 205 | 3 | 10th | In opposition | |||
| 2008 | Narayan Man Bijukchhe | 65,908 | 0.64 | 0.08 | 74,089 | 0.69 | 4 / 575 | 3 | 14th | In opposition | |
| 2013 | Narayan Man Bijukchhe | 54,323 | 0.60 | 0.04 | 66,778 | 0.71 | 0.02 | 4 / 575 |  | 15th | In opposition |
| 2017 | Narayan Man Bijukchhe | 52,668 | 0.52 | 0.08 | 56,141 | 0.59[a] | 0.12 | 1 / 275 | 3 | 11th | In opposition |
| 2022 | Narayan Man Bijukchhe | 71,567 | 0.68 | 0.16 | 75,168 | 0.71[a] | 0.12 | 1 / 275 | | 11th | In opposition |
| Election Year | Party list votes | Seats | Position | Resulting government | |||
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| No. | % | +/– | No. | +/– | |||
| 2017 | 41,610 | 2.20 | 2 / 110 | 5th | In opposition | ||
| 2022 | 68,796 | 3.55 | 1.35 | 3 / 110 | 1 | 6th | In opposition |
