| Nepal Democratic Congress | |
| Native Name: | नेपाल प्रजातान्त्रिक कांग्रेस |
| Colorcode: | seagreen |
| President: | Mahendra Bikram Shah |
| General Secretary: | Surya Prasad Upadhyaya |
| Foundation: | 4 August 1948 |
| Ideology: | Social democracy |
| Founder: | Subarna Shamsher Rana and others |
| Headquarters: | Kathmandu District, Nepal |
| Country: | Nepal |
| Dissolution: | 9 April 1950 |
| Successor: | Nepali Congress |
The Nepal Democratic Congress was a political party in Nepal established in 1948 by Subarna Shamsher and Mahabir Shamsher.
The party merged with Nepali National Congress on 9 April 1950 to form the Nepali Congress.
After the appointment of Mohan Shumsher as prime minister, he stopped the implementation of the 1948 Constitution and confiscated assets from some C-Class Ranas. Due to this, some C-Class Ranas led by Subarna Shamsher and Mahabir Shamsher, who were nephews of Padma Shumsher, financed the establishment of Nepal Democratic Congress with the aim of launching an armed struggle against the Rana regime. The party was founded with Mahendra Bikram Shah as the president and Surya Prasad Upadhyaya as general secretary in 1948 in Kolkata with the financial backing of Subarna Shamsher, Mahabir Shamsher and other C-Class Ranas.. The party leadership and financial backers were Rana and so initially had limited pubic appeal. Eventually the party attracted the support of people that were dissatisfied with factional politics in Nepali National Congress, Gorkha ex-servicemen and former members of the Indian Army. The party called for an armed struggle against the Rana regime and formed the core of the Mukti Sena[1] [2]
The party merged with Nepali Congress on 9 April 1950.[3]