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Aam Janata Party

political party in Nepal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionMar 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ63985934 ↗
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The Aam Janata Party (Nepali: आम जनता पार्टी, lit. 'General People's Party') is a Nepalese political party. The party has representation in federal parliament of Nepal since the 2022 general election.

Former minister Prabhu Sah serves as the chairman of the party.

History

Formation

The party was formed on 29 December 2022 by former minister Prabhu Sah. Sah who had won as independent candidate formed the party after the 2022 Nepalese general election declaring that CPN (UML) was no longer in the way to solve the problems of general public.

Sah was supported by former minister Ram Bir Manandhar and Badri Neupane who were also from CPN (UML) background.

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This entry incorporates text from “Aam Janata Party” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.