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Prajatantrik Lok Dal

political party in Nepal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 23, 2024
Entity authorityQ16938979 ↗
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Prajatantrik Lok Dal (Nepali: प्रजातान्त्रिक लोक दल, 'Democratic People's Party') was a political party in Nepal. Devendra Pandey was the president of the party, and Tanka Prasad Karki the general secretary. The party contested the 15 November 1994 parliamentary election with 10 candidates. In total the candidates got 3082 votes (0.04% of the national vote). None of its candidates were elected.

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This entry incorporates text from “Prajatantrik Lok Dal” 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.