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Nepal Congress नेपाली काँग्रेस Nēpālī kāṅgrēs | |
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| Abbreviation | NC |
| President | Sher Bahadur Deuba |
| Presidium | Central Working Committee |
| Vice-president | Purna Bahadur Khadka Dhanraj Gurung |
| General Secretary | Gagan Thapa Bishwa Prakash Sharma[1] |
| Spokesperson | Prakash Sharan Mahat[2] |
| Founder | B. P. Koirala and others |
| Founded | 9 April 1950 |
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| Headquarters | B.P. Smriti Bhawan, B.P. Nagar, Lalitpur[3] |
| Think tank | Policy Research and Training Centre[4] |
| Student wing | Nepal Student Union |
| Youth wing | Nepal Tarun Dal |
| Women's wing | Nepal Woman Association |
| Labour wing | Nepal Trade Union Congress |
| Peasant's wing | Nepal Farmers Association[5] |
| Membership (December 2021) |  870,106 |
| Ideology | Democratic socialism[6][7][8] Third Way[9] |
| Political position | Centre-left[10] |
| Regional affiliation | Network of Social Democracy in Asia[11] |
| International affiliation | Socialist International Progressive Alliance |
| Alliance | Democratic Alliance |
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| ECN Status | National Party (1st largest) |
| House of Representatives | 88 / 275 |
| National Assembly | 16 / 59 |
| Provincial Assemblies | 174 / 550 |
| Chief Ministers | 4 / 7 |
| Mayors/Chairs | 333 / 753 |
| Councillors | 13,730 / 35,011 |
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The Nepali Congress (Nepali: नेपाली कांग्रेस Nepali pronunciation: [neˈpali ˈkaŋres]; abbr. NC) is the oldest democratic socialist political party in Nepal and the largest party in the country.[12] The party has 870,106 members as of the party's 14th general convention in December 2021 making them the largest party by membership in Nepal.[13][14] Currently the party has started online membership since the emergence of youth leaders in vital post to bring youths into the party.[15][16][17]
The party is led by former prime minister, Sher Bahadur Deuba since the party's thirteenth general convention in 2016.[18] The party won 89 seats in the 2022 general election and is currently the largest parliamentary group in the House of Representatives.[19]
There have been seven Nepali Congress prime ministers and the party has led the government fourteen times.[20] Matrika Prasad Koirala, a founding member of the party was appointed as the first commoner prime minister following the end of the Rana regime in 1951. Subarna Shumsher Rana, another founding member of the party was also appointed as prime minister in 1958. Congress is the only party in Nepal to have been elected with a majority with the party forming majority governments in 1959, 1991 and 1999 under B.P. Koirala, Girija Prasad Koirala and K.P. Bhattarai respectively with B.P. Koirala becoming the first elected prime minister of the country.[21] The party also formed coalition governments in 1995 and 1998 under Girija Prasad Koirala and Sher Bahadur Deuba. The party emerged as the largest party following the 2013 Constituent Assembly elections and led a coalition government under Sushil Koirala.[22] After the promulgation of the constitution in 2015, the party led coalition governments under Deuba in 2017 and 2021.
The party was formed in 1950 by the merger of the Nepali National Congress and the Nepal Democratic Congress along democratic socialist lines. NC prime ministers led four governments between the fall of the Rana dynasty and the start of the Panchayat era, including the first democratically elected government of Nepal, after the 1959 general election. Starting in the 1990s, the party followed other mainstream, centre-left social democratic parties in moving closer to the political centre through the Third Way.[8]
- ^ "Central Working Committee". Nepali Congress. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
- ^ "Prakash Sharan Mahat appointed Nepali Congress Spokesperson". prakashsmahat.com. 7 February 2022. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
- ^ "Contacts". Nepali Congress. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
- ^ "१६ देशमा कांग्रेस केन्द्रीय नीति अनुसन्धान तथा प्रशिक्षण प्रतिष्ठान विस्तार".
- ^ http://www.nepalicongresskavre.org.np/%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2-%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8-%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%98%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AD%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87/ [bare URL]
- ^ Singh, Rishi (12 August 2006). "NC-NC (D) unity should spur change: Poudel". The Himalayan Times. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
- ^ "BP Koirala's socialism: What Nepal needs now for the dream to materialise - OnlineKhabar English News". 15 October 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
- ^ a b "Nepali Congress, An Introduction". Archived 8 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Nepali Congress. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
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- ^ "Prachanda back in government, Nepali Congress in opposition". PIME AsiaNews. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
- ^ "कांग्रेसले महाधिवेशन सकिएको चार महिनामै खुलायो सदस्यता". ekantipur.com (in Nepali). Retrieved 2 April 2022.
- ^ Adhikari, Ashok (8 December 2021). "जनाधार बलियो बनाउँदै दल" [Parties strengthening base] (PDF). Gorkhapatra. Nepal. p. 1. Retrieved 11 December 2022.
- ^ "असार १ देखि कांग्रेसको नयाँ सदस्य र नवीकरण अनलाइनमार्फत भर्न सकिने". Online Khabar. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
- ^ "अनलाइनबाट नेपाली कांग्रेसको साधारण सदस्य बन्न सकिने". Techpana. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
- ^ "डिजिटल बन्दै कांग्रेस : ५ लाख सदस्यता अनलाइन इन्ट्री". News24 : Premium News Channel. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
- ^ "Sher Bahadur Deuba elected Nepali Congress president". The Himalayan Times. 7 March 2016. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
- ^ "Proportional representation votes counted, 7 parties become national parties - OnlineKhabar English News". 7 December 2022. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
- ^ "Previous Election Facts and Figures". 21 October 2008. Archived from the original on 21 October 2008. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
- ^ "Previous Election Facts and Figures". 21 October 2008. Archived from the original on 21 October 2008. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ "Sovereign people make CA polls historic". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2021.