Ganga Bahadur Tamang | |
Native Name: | गंगा बहादुर तामाङ |
Office: | Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha |
Term Start: | 4 March 2018 |
Constituency: | Kavrepalanchok 1 |
Predecessor: | Tirtha Bahadur Lama |
Party: | CPN (Maoist Centre) |
Nationality: | Nepali |
Birth Date: | [1] |
Ganga Bahadur Tamang Dong is a Nepali politician and a member of the House of Representatives of the federal parliament of Nepal. He was elected from Kavre-1 constituency, representing Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Center) of the left alliance, under the first-past-the-post system.[2] He defeated his nearest rival, Tirtha Bahadur Lama of Nepali Congress securing 43,631 votes against Lama's 39,605.[3] Prior to that, he had only contested one local level election and lost.[4]
He is a member of the parliamentary Public Account Committee.[5]
During the Nepalese civil war, he was a member of the maoist party's Tamang Republican Autonomous Region People's Council.[6] He was also a leader of the Tamang National Liberation Front, the Tamang nationalist wing of the maoist party, during the war.[7]