Nepali Congress

The **Nepali Congress** ( ; abbr. **NC**) is the largest social democratic political party in Nepal. It has been the ruling party of Nepal since July 2021.

The only party in Nepal to have been elected with a majority, NC formed a majority government post three elections; in 1959, 1991 and 1999. Similarly, it emerged as the single largest party from the 2013 Constituent Assembly election, and played a leading role in the promulgation of Constitution of Nepal in 2015.

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.

### Party presidents

- Matrika Prasad Koirala, 1950–1952
- Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala, 1952–1956, 1957–1982
- Subarna Shamsher Rana, 1956–1957
- Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, 1982–1996
- Girija Prasad Koirala, 1996–2010
- Sushil Koirala, 2010–2016
- Sher Bahadur Deuba, 2016–present

### Prime Ministers of Nepal

|rowspan="2" style="background-color:; color:white"|No.|rowspan="2" style="background-color:; color:white"|Prime Minister|rowspan="2" style="background-color:; color:white"|Portrait|colspan="3" style="background-color:; color:white"|Terms in Office|rowspan="2" style="background-color:; color:white"|Legislature|rowspan="2" style="background-color:; color:white"|Cabinet|rowspan="2" style="background-color:; color:white"|Constituency|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Matrika Prasad Koirala||16 November 1951|14 August 1952||Appointed by King Tribhuvan|M.P. Koirala, 1951|||||||
|2|Subarna Shamsher Rana||15 May 1958|27 May 1959||Appointed by King Mahendra||||||||
|3|Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala||27 May 1959|26 December 1960||1st House of Representatives|B.P. Koirala, 1959|Morang–Biratnagar West||||||
|rowspan="2"|4|rowspan="2"|Krishna Prasad Bhattarai|rowspan="2"||19 April 1990|26 May 1991||Appointed by King Birendra|||||
|31 May 1999|22 March 2000||3rd House of Representatives||Parsa 1|||||||||
|rowspan="4"|5|rowspan="4"|Girija Prasad Koirala|rowspan="4"||26 May 1991|30 November 1994||3rd House of Representatives||Morang 1|||
|15 April 1998|31 May 1999||rowspan="2"|4th House of Representatives||rowspan="3"|Sunsari 5|||||||
|22 March 2000|26 July 2001|||||||||||||
|25 April 2006|28 May 2008||Interim legislature of Nepal|||||||||||
|rowspan="4"|6|rowspan="4"|Sher Bahadur Deuba|rowspan="4"||12 September 1995|12 March 1997||rowspan="2"|4th House of Representatives||rowspan="4"|Dadeldhura 1|
|26 July 2001|4 October 2002|||||||||||||
|7 June 2017|15 February 2018||2nd Constituent Assembly|Deuba, 2017||||||||||
|13 July 2021|Incumbent||5th House of Representatives|Deuba, 2021||||||||||
|7|Sushil Koirala||11 February 2014|12 October 2015||2nd Constituent Assembly|Sushil Koirala, 2013|Banke 3||||||

### Chief Ministers of provinces of Nepal

|rowspan="2" style="background-color:; color:white"|No.|rowspan="2" style="background-color:; color:white"|Chief Minister|rowspan="2" style="background-color:; color:white"|Portrait|colspan="3" style="background-color:; color:white"|Terms in Office|rowspan="2" style="background-color:; color:white"|Legislature|rowspan="2" style="background-color:; color:white"|Cabinet|rowspan="2" style="background-color:; color:white"|Constituency|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Krishna Chandra Nepali||12 June 2021|Incumbent||Provincial Assembly of Gandaki Province|Krishna Chandra Nepali cabinet|Nawalparasi East 1(A)||||||
|2|Jeevan Bahadur Shahi||2 November 2021|Incumbent||Provincial Assembly of Karnali Province|Jeevan Bahadur Shahi cabinet|Humla 1(B)||||||

## Sister organizations

According to the website of Nepali Congress, the following are its sister organizations.
- Nepal Woman Association
- Nepal Tarun Dal
- Nepal Students' Union
- Nepal Peasants' Union
- Nepal Dalit Sangh
- Nepal Ex-servicemen's Association
- Nepal Prajatantra Senani Sangh
- Indigenous Nationality Association of Nepal
- Nepal Muslim Sangh
- Nepal Tamang Sangh
- Nepal National Magar Association
- Nepal Thakur Society

## Infobox (political party)

- **name**: Nepali Congress
- **native name**: नेपाली काँग्रेस
- **logo**: Nepali Congress flag.svgborder
- **membership**: 852,711 (2021)
- **logo size**: 150px
- **colorcode**: green
- **president**: Sher Bahadur Deuba
- **ideology**: Social democracy
Third Way
- **headquarters**: B.P. Smriti Bhawan,
B.P. Nagar, Lalitpur, Nepal, Lalitpur
- **international**: Socialist International
Progressive Alliance (political international), Progressive Alliance
- **country**: Nepal
- **abbreviation**: NC
- **founder**: Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala and others
- **merger**: Nepali National Congress

- **student wing**: Nepal Student Union
- **youth wing**: Nepal Tarun Dal
- **womens wing**: Nepal Woman Association
- **position**: Centrism, Centre to Centre-left politics, centre-left
- **symbol**:
- **flag**: Nepali Congress alt flag.svgborder
- **leader1 title**: Vice-president
- **leader1 name**: Bimalendra Nidhi
- **leader4 name**: Bishwa Prakash Sharma
- **leader2 title**: General Secretary
- **seats1 title**: House of Representatives (Nepal), House of Representatives
- **seats2 title**: National Assembly (Nepal), National Assembly
- **seats3 title**: Provincial Assembly (Nepal), Provincial Assemblies
- **seats4 title**: Local government in Nepal, Local governments
- **seats4**: <small>Mayor/Chairperson</small>
- **leader4 title**: Spokesperson
- **leader2 name**: Shashanka Koirala
Purna Bahadur Khadka