Ram Kumari Jhakri
Ram Kumari Jhakri | |
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| Nationality |  Nepali |
| Occupation | politician |
Ram Kumari Jhakri, also Ramkumari Jhakri, is a Nepalese politician, member of parliament and former president of All Nepal National Free Students Union (ANNFSU). She currently serves as a legislator at the lower assembly of the federal parliament, representing Nepal Communist Party. She supports reservation for women, in the civil service.[1]
On 4 May 2019, she gave an interview to the talk show Janata janna chahanchhan (translation:People Want to Know) on Prime Times Television, in which she criticised her own party leader and prime minister KP Sharma Oli on the government's program for the fiscal year 2019-20. She said the prime minister's programs were an insult to republicanism.[2] She has also been critical of finance minister Yubaraj Khatiwada in the past.[3]
She was the first woman to be elected president of a major party affiliate student union. As the president of ANNFSU, she was one of the central figures of student protests during the 2006 democracy movement in Nepal.[4]
References
- ^ "Lawmakers demand quota for women within reservation clusters". The Himalayan Times. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
- ^ ओलीले गणतन्त्रको अपमान गरेको झाँक्रीको आरोप (भिडियोसहित) [Jhakri alleges Oli has insulted republicanism (with video)] (in Nepali). Reporters Nepal. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
- ^ "Fin Min Khatiwada's remarks irresponsible: Jhakri". kathmandupost.ekantipur.com.
- ^ "Nepal's aspirations suffocate in a political limbo". South China Morning Post. 13 December 2009. Retrieved 10 July 2019.