As many as 16 lawmakers representing the Dalit community have been elected to the House of Representatives (HoR) under the proportional represenation (PR) and first-past-the-post (FPTP) electoral categories in the recently concluded parliamentary elections.
Of them, 15 were elected to the HoR under PR category and one through FPTP. Chhabilal Biswokarma was the only Dalit candidate to be elected to the HoR under FPTP category. He was elected from Rupandehi-1.
Likewise, twenty-eight members have been elected in seven province assemblies from the Dalit community under PR category.
According to the Election Commission-disclosed list of province assembly members elected under PR category, Kamala Darnal (Terhathum) from CPN (UML), Sunita Kumari Gurung (Sunsari) from Nepali Congress, Sapana Darji (Sunsari) from CPN (Maoist Center) and Gopal Bahadur Biswokarma (Jhapa) from Rastriya Prajatantra Party have been elected as province assembly member in the Province-1.
Likewise, Sakuntali Devi (Sarlahi) and Nilam Kumari Rajak (Saptari) from the NC, Palati Devi Mahara (Dhanusha) from CPN (UML), Ranju Kumari Mandal (Saptari) from Janamat Party, Lalita Das (Siraha) from Janata Samajwadi Party Nepal, Sharad Das Pahadi (Dhanusha) from Maoist Center and Kishori Devi (Rautahat) from CPN (Unified Socialist) have been elected as province assembly members from Dalit community in the Madhes Province under PR category.
As per the list disclosed by the EC on Wednesday, Balkumari Bioswokarma (Kathmandu) from the UML and Suna Pariyar (Kathmandu) from the NC were elected as PR lawmakers in Bagmati province.
In Gandaki Province, Govinda Bahadur Nepali (Baglung) and Nanda Kala Damai Nepali (Kaski) from UML, Dilmaya Pauwi (Baglung) and Tika Kumari Basyal (Lamjung) from NC and Damayanti Ruchal (Nawalparasi Bardaghat Susta East) from Maoist Center were elected under PR category.
Likewise, in the Lumbini Province, Indra Kumari Gahatraj (Palpa) and Rekha Kumari Sharma (Dang) from UML, Loki Kumari BK (Dang) from NC and Yam Bahadur Nepali Sarki (Gulmi) from Maoist Center were elected as PR lawmakers from Dalit community.
As per the results, Karnali Province has Gamata BK (Dailekh) from UML, Laxmi Sunar (Salyan) from NC and Urmila Biswokarma (Rolpa) from Maoist Center as province assembly members from Dalit community under PR category.
Similarly, Hira Sarki (Kanchanpur) from UML, Lalita Sunar (Kailali) from NC and Laxmi BK (Darchula) from Maoist Center were elected in the Sudurpaschim Province.
It may be noted that Sita Sundas (Gandaki) and Rana Singh Pariyar (Karnali) were only elected from Dalit community in the first-past-the-post electoral system in the province. With this, the representation of Dalit community has reached 30 in province assemblies.
