Kathmandu. Bishnu Prasad Chaudhary has been appointed the first Chairman of the Tharu Commission of Nepal. Tharu Commission was established to defend the rights of the indigenous people of Tharu Communities as provisioned by the new Constitution of Nepal.
On Thursday, HE President Bidya Devi Bhandari appointed him and Chiefs of four other different constitutional commissions.
The Constitution Council had recommended Bishnu Prasad Chaudhary as Chairman of the Tharu Commission, Samim Miyan Ansari as the Chairman of the Muslim Commission, Bijay Kumar Dutta as that of the Madhesi Commission, former secretary Balananda Paudel as that of the National Natural Resources and Fiscal Commission and former secretary Shanta Raj Subedi as that of National Inclusion Commission on January 20.
The five heads of the constitutional commissions as managed by the new Constitution of Nepal were sworn in by Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher Rana in presence of HE President Bhandari at the latter’s office Shital Niwas on Thursday.
Bishnu Prasad Chaudhary was a popular peasants’ leader from Bardiya and was elected as a member of the Constituent Assembly from Bardia-2 in the 2008 election.
He resigned from the party membership along with his post of the member of the central committee of Nepal Communist Party (NCP) to fulfill the criteria maintained by the Constitution. He also served as the General Secretary of All Nepal Peasants’ Federation (Revolutionary Centre) for a long time.
