Kedar Sigdel | |
Native Name: | केदार सिग्देल |
Office: | Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha |
Term Start: | 4 March 2018 |
Term End: | 18 September 2022 |
Constituency: | Tanahun 2 |
Predecessor: | Ram Chandra Paudel |
Party: | Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) |
Nationality: | Nepali |
Birth Date: | 5 September 1963[1] |
Successor: | Shankar Bhandari |
Kedar Sigdel is a Nepali politician and former member of the House of Representatives.[2] [3]
He was elected under the first-past-the-post (FPTP) system from Tanahun–2 in the 2017 general election.[4] He defeated his nearest rival Shankar Bhandari of Nepali Congress by acquiring 32,924 votes to Bhandari's 29,645. This was the first time he was elected to parliament.[5]
Sigdel did not contest the seat in the 2022 general election, instead opting to run for the provincial assembly from Tanahun 2 (B), but he was defeated by Congress' Jeet Prakash Ale Magar by a margin of 640 votes.[6]