Chitra Bahadur K.C.

Who is Chitra Bahadur K.C.?

Chitra Bahadur K.C. is a Nepalese politician. He is the chairman of the Rashtriya Jana Morcha and the general secretary of the All Nepal Peasants Association linked to RJM.

Chitra Bahadur K.C. belonged to the Communist Party of Nepal. In the 1983 he sided with Mohan Bikram Singh, and joined the Communist Party of Nepal.

Chitra Bahadur K.C. contested the Baglung-2 constituency in the 1994 election. He finished second, with 15089 votes.

He was elected to the Pratinidhi Sabha in the 1999 election, as a candidate of Rashtriya Jana Morcha in the constituency of Baglung-2 with 24124 votes.

When Janamorcha Nepal was formed in 2002 through the merger of RJM and Samyukta Janamorcha Nepal, Chitra Bahadur K.C. became a member of JMN. When JMN split in 2006, he sided with Communist Party of Nepal general secretary Mohan Bikram Singh in rejecting participation the Seven Party Alliance government. Effectively JMN was split. A conference of the JMN led by Chitra Bahadur K.C. was held in Butwal May 25–26, 2006, in which he was elected chairman of this JMN faction. The Chitra Bahadur K.C.-led JMN was renamed as the Rashtriya Jana Morcha in 2007.