| Narahari Acharya | |
| Native Name: | नरहरि आचार्य |
| Native Name Lang: | ne |
| Office: | Ministry of Law, Justice and Constituent Assembly |
| Term Start: | 25 February 2014 |
| Term End: | 12 October 2015 |
| Predecessor: | Hari Prasad Neupane |
| Successor: | Angi Kharel |
| Office1: | Member of Constituent Assembly |
| Term Start1: | 2008 |
| Term End1: | 2017 |
| Constituency1: | Kathmandu 5 |
| Vicepresident: | Paramananda Jha |
| President: | Ram Baran Yadav |
| Primeminister: | Sushil Koirala |
| Birth Date: | 27 September 1953 |
| Birth Place: | Kathmandu |
| Nationality: | Nepali |
| Party: | Nepali Congress |
Narahari Acharya, (Nepali:नरहरि आचार्य) a central member of Nepali Congress, assumed the post of the Minister of Law, Justice, Constituent Assembly, Parliamentary Affairs and Peace and Reconstruction on 25 February 2014 under Sushil Koirala-led government.[1] [2]
He is a member of the 2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly. He won the Kathmandu - 5 seat in 2013 Nepalese Constituent Assembly election from the Nepali Congress.[3] [4] [5]
Narahari Acharya was born on 27 September 1953 in Bisharnagar, Kathmandu, Nepal to Umanath Acharya and Rewati Acharya. He holds a Master's Degree in Humanities and has taught for 16 years at the Tribhuvan University. He is married to the writer Sharada Sharma and has two daughters.[6]
Acharya involved in politics joining Nepali Congress in 1968 though he only took the party membership in 1997. He became a member of the National Assembly in 1992 and was appointed as Minister for Law, Justice, Constituent Assembly and Parliamentary Affairs.
He won the 2008 Nepalese Constituent Assembly election from Kathmandu 5 constituency with 13,245 votes defeating CPN (UML) general secretary Ishwor Pokhrel who had received 9,120 votes. He was also jailed for 1 year in course of his political activities.
| Kathamndu 5 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||
| Nepali Congress | Narahari Acharya | 15,364 | ||
| CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist) | Ishwar Pokhrel | 14,723 | ||
| Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal | Raja Ram Shrestha | 4,359 | ||
| UCPN (Maoist) | Mahendra Kumar Shrestha | 3,655 | ||
| Independent | Ujwal Bahadur Thapa | 1,163 | ||
| Others | 2,674 | |||
| Result | Congress hold | |||
| Source: Election Commission | ||||
| Kathmandu 5 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||
| Nepali Congress | Narahari Acharya | 13,245 | ||
| CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist) | Ishwar Pokhrel | 9,120 | ||
| CPN (Maoist) | Dipendra Prakash Maharjan | 8,089 | ||
| Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal | Kamal Thapa | 3,925 | ||
| CPN (Marxist–Leninist) | Daman Bahdur Khatri | 1,022 | ||
| Others | 2,194 | |||
| Invalid votes | 1,389 | |||
| Result | Congress gain | |||
| Source: Election Commission[7] | ||||