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Phulmati Devi Chaudhari

Nepalese politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ7188331
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Phulmati Devi Chaudhari (Nepali: फूलमती देवी चौधरी) is a Nepalese politician, belonging to the Rastriya Janshakti Party. After the 2008 Constituent Assembly election she became a Constituent Assembly member for Kailali District, elected through the proportional representation system.

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The public source identifies “Phulmati Devi Chaudhari” as nepalese politician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Phulmati, Devi and Chaudhari.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Phulmati, Devi and Chaudhari providing the first useful test.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7188331. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from Phulmati Devi Chaudhari” 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.