Honorific Prefix: | MP |
Durga Paudel | |
Office1: | Vice Chairperson of Rastriya Janamorcha |
Term Start1: | 2016 |
Office2: | Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha |
Term Start2: | 4 March 2018 |
Predecessor2: | Bam Dev Gautam |
Constituency2: | Pyuthan 1 |
Office3: | Member of Constituent Assembly for Rastriya Janamorcha party list |
Term Start3: | 21 January 2014 |
Term End3: | 14 October 2017 |
Citizenship: | Nepali |
Party: | Rastriya Janamorcha |
Spouse: | Mohan Bikram Singh |
Birth Date: | 21 September 1971[1] |
Durga Paudel (also Poudel; Nepali: दुर्गा पौडेल) is a Nepali politician and a member of the House of Representatives of the federal parliament of Nepal.[2] She was elected under the first-past-the-post (FPTP) system, as a candidate from Rastriya Janamorcha and with the support of the left alliance,[3] from Pyuthan 1.[4] [5] She defeated Dr. Govinda Raj Pokharel of Nepali Congress.[5] She received 47,514 votes to Pokharel's 31,286.[5] She was one of only six women to be elected to parliament under the FPTP system.[5]
At the third national conference of Rastriya Janamorcha in 2016, she had been elected as one of the two vice chairs of the party.[6]