# Nagrik Unmukti Party

The People's Freedom Party (Nepali: नागरिक उन्मुक्ति पार्टी, Nagrik Unmukti Party) is a political party in Nepal. The party's primary base is in the Tharuhath region, especially Kailali district and Bardiya district.

## History
### Formation and Registration

The party was formed under the coordination of Member of House of Representatives, Resham Lal Chaudhary. Due to some acts of law, he could not chair the party, so his wife was chosen as chair instead. He left his former party, the People's Socialist Party, Nepal, claiming that it had become power-centric and that it forgot the mandate provided by the people alleging that the party used it as vote bank.

### Party expansion and first election

The party rapidly expanded in a few months in the Tharuhath region. The party surprisingly emerged as largest party of Kailali district winning 4 local levels including two municipalities and two rural municipalities. The party swept away Loktantrik Samajwadi Party, Nepal and People's Socialist Party, Nepal from Tharuhath region keeping their traditional vote block.
Later the party won 3 seats of 5 seats from Kailali district while won Bardiya 2. As a result party won 7 seats in Sudurpashchim Provincial Assembly while won 4 seats in Lumbini Provincial Assembly and 1 seat in Madhesh Provincial Assembly. The party received 2.57 percent vote share in proportional polls and lagged behind from 3% threshold by 0.43%.

## List of Members of Parliament
### List of Pratinidhi Sabha members from People's Freedom Party

| No. | Name | Constituency | Province | Elected from |
| 1. | Arun Kumar Chaudhary | Kailali 2 | Sudurpashchim | 2022 general election |
| 2. | Ganga Ram Chaudhary | Kailali 3 | Sudurpashchim | 2022 general election |
| 3. | Lalbir Chaudhary | Bardiya 2 | Lumbini | 2022 general election |
| 4. | Ranjeeta Shrestha | Kailali 1 | Sudurpashchim | 2022 general election |

## Electoral performance
### General election

| Election | Leader | Party list votes | Party list votes | Seats | Position | Resulting government |
| Election | Leader | No. | % | Seats | Position | Resulting government |
| 2022 | Ranjeeta Shrestha | 271,722 | 2.57 | 4 / 275 | 10th | Confidence & supply |
* ↑ Represented as Independent for not reaching the 3% threshold

### Provincial election

| Province | Election | Party list votes | Party list votes | Seats | Position | Resulting government |
| Province | Election | No. | % | Seats | Position | Resulting government |
| Madhesh | 2022 | 49,705 | 2.38 | 1 / 107 | 10th | Confidence & supply |
| Lumbini | 2022 | 125,521 | 6.65 | 4 / 87 | 5th | Confidence & supply |
| Sudurpashchim | 2022 | 98,559 | 11.00 | 7 / 53 | 4th | Confidence & supply |

### Local election

| Election | Leader(s) | Mayor/Chairman | Local levels won |
| 2022 | Ranjeeta Shrestha | 4 / 753 | Janaki Rural Municipality Tikapur Municipality Bhajani Municipality Joshipur Rural Municipality |

## List of cabinet ministers

| No. | Name | Term of office | Term of office | Days in office | Ministerial incharge |
| Central government |||||||
| 1 | Ranjeeta Shrestha | 31 March 2023 | 4 March 2024 | 339 days | Minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation |
| 2 | Arun Kumar Chaudhary | 3 August 2024 | Incumbent | 159 days | Minister of state for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation |
| Lumbini government |||||||
| 1 | Dharma Bahadur Chaudhary | 28 April 2023 | 4 April 2024 | 1 year, 256 days | Minister for Physical Infrastructure Development |
| 1 | Dharma Bahadur Chaudhary | 18 April 2024 | 21 July 2024 | 94 days | Minister for Physical Infrastructure Development |
| Sudurpashchim Province |||||||
| 1 | Khushi Ram Chaudhary | 8 March 2024 | 5 April 2024 | 28 days | Minister without portfolio |
| 2 | Ghanshyam Chaudhary | 9 March 2024 | 5 April 2024 | 1 year, 27 days | Minister for Economic Affairs |
| 3 | Rameshwar Chaudhary | 9 March 2023 | 5 April 2024 | 1 year, 27 days | Minister for Land Management, Agriculture and Cooperatives |
| 5 | Kailash Chaudhary | 19 April 2024 | 4 August 2024 | 107 days | Minister for Physical Infrastructure Development |
| 4 | Tika Thapa | 30 April 2024 | 28 July 2024 | 89 days | Minister for Social Development |
| 6 | Laxman Kishor Chaudhary | 5 August 2024 | Incumbent | 157 days | Minister for Industry, Tourism, Forest and Environment |

## Leadership
### Supreme leader

* Resham Lal Chaudhary (2022-present)

### Chairman

* Ranjeeta Shrestha (2022-presesnt)