2nd Madhesh Provincial Assembly

The **2nd Madhesh Provincial Assembly** was elected through the provincial elections on 20 November 2022. The assembly has 64 constituency seats. Members are elected through direct elections and 43 proportional representation party list seats. The term of the assembly is 5 years unless dissolved earlier. The first session of the assembly started on 2 January 2023.

## Members

|colspan="3" style="width: 800pt; background:; color: white;"|CPN (UML) (25)||
| --- | --- | --- |
|Dhanusha 1 (B)|Ram Chandra Mandal|* Speaker of the assembly|
|Mahottari 4 (A)|Saroj Kumar Yadav|* Parliamentary party leader * Minister for Physical Infrastructure Development|
|Saptari 1 (A)|Raj Kumar Lekhi|* Minister for Law, Justice and Provincial Affairs|
|Siraha 2 (B)|Satrudhan Prasad Singh|* Minister for Home Affairs and Communication|
|Rautahat 2 (A)|Mohammad Zaid Alam|* Minister for Women, Children, Youth and Sports|
|Rautahat 3 (A)|Keshav Raya|* Elected as Independent; joined CPN (UML) on 3 February 2023 * State minister for Home Affairs and Communications|
|Siraha 1 (A)|Rajendra Prasad Chaudhary Tharu||
|Siraha 3 (A)|Manoj Kumar Singh||
|Dhanusha 2 (A)|Lakhan Das Tatma||
|Dhanusha 3 (B)|Dipendra Kumar Thakur||
|Dhanusha 4 (B)|Hari Narayan Mahato||
|Mahottari 1 (A)|Sharada Devi Thapa||
|Bara 1 (A)|Triloki Prasad||
|Bara 3 (A)|Ravindra Das Shrestha||
|Bara 3 (B)|Mohammad Sameer||
|Bara 4 (A)|Dev Narayan Tharu||
|Madheshi|Jay Chandra Prasad Patel||
|Madheshi|Panti Devi Yadav||
|Madheshi|Phulo Kumari Devi||
|Madheshi, Marwari|Bina Devi Sharma||
|Madheshi, Marwari|Rajpati Devi Jaiswal||
|Dalit|Palti Devi Mahara||
|Muslim|Jainab Khatun||
|Indigenous peoples|Manju Kumari Thapa Magar||

|colspan="3" style="width: 800pt; background:; color: white;"|Nepali Congress (22)||
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|Rautahat 1 (B)|Krishna Prasad Yadav|* Parliamentary party leader|
|Saptari 3 (A)|Mohammad Samim||
|Dhanusha 1 (A)|Sanjay Kumar Mahato||
|Dhanusha 3 (A)|Ram Saroj Yadav||
|Dhanusha 4 (A)|Shesh Narayan Yadav||
|Sarlahi 2 (A)|Jangilal Ray||
|Sarlahi 2 (B)|Kaushal Kishor Ray||
|Sarlahi 4 (A)|Birendra Prasad Singh||
|Rautahat 1 (A)|Nagendra Sah||
|Rautahat 3 (B)|Sunil Kumar Yadav||
|Parsa 2 (A)|Shyam Prasad Patel||
|Parsa 3 (B)|Janardhan Singh Chhetri||
|Parsa 4 (A)|Shankar Prasad Chaudhary||
|Madheshi|Kumar Kant Jha||
|Madheshi|Rekha Thakur||
|Madheshi|Jibachhi Kumari Yadav||
|Madheshi, Sudhi|Indu Kumar Sah||
|Madheshi, Kamhar|Anjana Pandit||
|Dalit|Shakunti Devi||
|Dalit, Dhobi|Nilam Kumar Razak||
|Indigenous peoples|Mina Kumar Lama||
|Muslim|Nurun Mesa||

|colspan="3" style="width: 800pt; background:; color: white;"|People's Socialist Party (20)||
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|Bara 1 (B)|Saroj Kumar Yadav|* Chief Minister * Parliamentary party leader|
|Sarlahi 3 (B)|Sanjay Kumar Yadav|* Minister for Economic Affairs|
|Mahottari 2 (B)|Surita Kumari Sah|* Elected as Independent; joined PSP-N on 22 January 2023 * Minister for Social Development|
|Parsa 4 (B)|Singhasan Sah Kalwar|* Minister for Water Supply and Energy Development|
|Rautahat 4 (B)|Sheikh Abul Kalam Aazad|* State minister for Social Development|
|Saptari 4 (B)|Anirudhha Kumar Singh|* Elected as Independent|
|Siraha 1 (B)|Raj Kumar Gupta||
|Dhanusha 2 (B)|Ram Ashish Yadav||
|Mahottari 4 (B)|Saroj Kumar Singh||
|Bara 2 (A)|Sarada Sarkar Prasad Kalwar|* Elected as Independent; joined the party on 5 February 2023|
|Bara 2 (B)|Bachha Raut Ahir||
|Parsa 1 (B)|Lalbabu Raut||
|Parsa 3 (A)|Pramod Kumar Jaiswal|* Elected as Independent; joined PSP-N on 22 January 2023|
|Madheshi, Kayastha|Manish Kumar Suman||
|Madheshi|Bindu Kumari Yadav||
|Madheshi|Kiran Kumari||
|Madheshi, Kanu|Shobha Devi||
|Dalit|Lalita Das||
|Muslim|Shahida Khatun||
|Indigenous peoples|Mamata Devi Mandal||

|colspan="3" style="width: 800pt; background:; color: white;"|Janamat Party (13)||
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|Madheshi, Rajdhov|Babita Kumari Raut Ishar|* Deputy Speaker of the assembly|
|Saptari 2 (B)|Mahesh Prasad Yadav|* Parliamentary party leader * Minister for Education, Science and Technology|
|Madheshi|Basanta Kumar Kushwaha|* Minister for Land Management, Agriculture and Cooperatives|
|Siraha 2 (A)|Sanjay Kumar Yadav|* State minister for Land Management, Agriculture and Cooperatives|
|Madheshi|Chandan Kumar Singh|* Chief Whip|
|Saptari 1 (B)|Saqil Miya||
|Saptari 2 (A)|Satish Kumar Singh||
|Saptari 3 (B)|Shambhu Kumar Sah||
|Siraha 4 (A)|Tribhuwan Sah||
|Madheshi|Anita Kumari Shah||
|Dalit, Khatve|Ranju Kumari Mandal Khang||
|Muslim|Hasina Khatun||
|Indigenous peoples|Bhagyashri Kumari Chaudhary||

|colspan="3" style="width: 800pt; background:;"|Loktantrik Samajwadi Party (9)||
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|Mahottari 3 (A)|Abhiram Sharma|* Parliamentary party leader|
|Siraha 4 (B)|Ram Babu Yadav||
|Mahottari 2 (A)|Jayanul Rain||
|Mahottari 3 (B)|Rani Kumari Tiwari||
|Sarlahi 1 (A)|Upendra Mahato||
|Bara 4 (B)|Jitendra Prasad Sonar||
|Parsa 2 (B)|Ramesh Prasad Kurmi||
|Madheshi|Rupa Kumari Yadav||
|Madheshi, Sudhi|Ramita Pradhan||

|colspan="3" style="width: 800pt; background:; color: white;"|CPN (Maoist Centre) (9)||
| --- | --- | --- |
|Mahottari 1 (B)|Bharat Prasad Sah|* Parliamentary party leader|
|Sarlahi 3 (A)|Jawaharlal Kushwaha|* Elected as Independent; joined the party on 28 December 2022|
|Sarlahi 4 (B)|Fakeera Mahato||
|Rautahat 4 (A)|Yubaraj Bhattarai||
|Parsa 1 (A)|Rahabar Ansari||
|Madheshi|Sunita Yadav||
|Madheshi, Kayastha|Mala Kumari Karna||
|Dalit|Sharada Das||
|Muslim|Mohammad Razi Haider||

|colspan="3" style="width: 800pt; background:; color: white;"|CPN (Unified Socialist) (7)||
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|Saptari 4 (A)|Govinda Bahadur Neupane|* Parliamentary party leader|
|Sarlahi 1 (B)|Bechi Lungeli||
|Siraha 3 (B)|Pramod Kumar Yadav||
|Rautahat 2 (B)|Kanish Patel||
|Madheshi|Ratneshwar Goit Yadav||
|Madheshi, Lohar|Laxmi Devi||
|Dalit|Kishori Devi||

|colspan="3" style="width: 800pt; background:; color: white;"|Rastriya Prajatantra Party (1)||
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|Madheshi|Kanchan Bichha||

|colspan="3" style="width: 800pt; background:; color: white;"|Nepal Federal Socialist Party (1)||
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|Muslim|Bimala Ansari Tartrum||

|colspan="3" style="width: 800pt; background:; color: white;"|Nagrik Unmukti Party (1)||
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|Madheshi|Urmila Devi Singh||

### Defections

|Constituency/ group|Member|colspan="2"|From|colspan="2"|To|Date||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Sarlahi 3 (A)|Jawaharlal Kushwaha|rowspan="6" bgcolor=""||rowspan="6"|Independent|bgcolor=""||CPN (Maoist Centre)|28 December 2022|
|Mahottari 2 (B)|Surita Kumari Sah|rowspan="2" bgcolor=""||rowspan="2"|People's Socialist Party, Nepal|rowspan="2"|22 January 2023|||
|Parsa 3 (A)|Pramod Kumar Jaiswal|||||||||
|Rautahat 3 (A)|Keshav Raya|bgcolor=""||CPN (UML)|3 February 2023|||||
|Bara 2 (A)|Sarada Sarkar Prasad Kalwar|rowspan="2" bgcolor=""||rowspan="2"|People's Socialist Party, Nepal|5 February 2023||||
|Saptari 4 (B)|Anirudhha Kumar Singh|||||||||

### Suspensions

|Constituency/ group|Member|colspan="2"|Party|From|To|Reason||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Mahottari 3 (A)|Abhiram Sharma|bgcolor=""||Loktantrik Samajwadi|30 April 2024||Life sentence on murder charges|