KATHMANDU, March 12: The CK Raut-led Janamat Party has made it clear that it will not join the new alliance.

KATHMANDU, Jan 23: CK Raut-led Janamat Party has quit the Madhesh Province government.

KATHMANDU, Jan 1: The police detained Janamat Party president CK Raut along with party leaders and cadres on Monday for staging a protest in the restricted zone. They, however, were released after some time.

KATHMANDU, August 23: Chairman of Janamat Party, CK Raut, has held a meeting with Vijay Chauthaiwale, the chief of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Foreign Affairs Department.

KATHMANDU, Aug 9: Leaders and activists of CK Raut-led Janamat Party gathered on the streets of Maitighar Mandala in Kathmandu to express solidarity with the demands of the indigenous communities. The party urged the government to address their demands.

KATHMANDU, July 3: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Janamat Party Chairperson Dr CK Raut held a meeting on Sunday.

KATHMANDU, July 2:  Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has asked CK Raut-led Janamat Party to join the government.

KATHMANDU, Jan 9: Chairman of Janamat Party, CK Raut has said that standing in parliament was a new feeling for him especially while considering that it was once forbidden to take his name in parliament.

KATHMANDU, Dec 25: Chairman of Janamat Party, CK Raut, has reached the residence of CPN-UML Chairman KP Oli at Balkot for discussion with leaders of the various political parties in a bid to form a new coalition government.

KATHMANDU, Dec 19: Chairperson of the Janamat Party, Dr CK Raut, has been nominated the Party's parliamentary party (PP) leader.

With the result announcement process by the Election Commission almost in the final stage, the parties have begun assessing the number of seats won by them and also started intensive talks and dialogue for the formation of a new government. One of the two new parties to be present in parliament in the capacity of national party is the Janamat Party led by Chandra Kanta (CK) Raut.

Emergence of Rabi Lamichhane-led Rastriya Swatantra Party and CK Raut-led Janamat Party as two new national parties

RAJBIRAJ, Nov 23:  CK Raut, president of Janmat Party, has been elected as a member of the House of Representatives from Saptari-2 with a landslide victory. He defeated JSP President Upendra Yadav by a wide margin of 18,073 votes.

CK Raut leading in Saptari-2

November 23, 2022 11:13 am

KATHMANDU, Nov 23: CK Raut of Janamat Party is still leading in Saptari Constituency No. 2. Raut has secured 27,927 votes.

CK Raut maintains a lead in Saptari-2

November 21, 2022 16:29 pm

KATHMANDU, Nov 21:  CK Raut of Janamat Party is leading the vote count by more than twice as many votes as Janata Samajwadi Party’s Upendra Yadav in Saptari Constituency-2. Raut has secured 3,016 votes so far.

KATHMANDU, Nov 21:  CK Raut of Janamat Party is leading the vote count by more than twice as many votes as Janata Samajwadi Party’s Upendra Yadav in Saptari Constituency No. 2. Raut has secured 1,634 votes so far.

KATHMANDU, August 5: Janmat Party chief CK Raut will contest from Saptari-2 in the upcoming elections slated for November 20.

JANAKPURDHAM, Feb 9: Janamat Party Chairman Dr CK Raut has warned of creating obstructions in the local level elections if the demands of the farmers are not met.

KATHMANDU, Jan 26: Cadres of the Janamat Party led by CK Raut have attacked a vehicle of a Madhes Provincial Assembly member. Provincial Assembly member Ashok Yadav's vehicle was vandalized by the cadres of Janamat Party.

JANAKPURDHAM, Jan 26: Cadres of the Janamat Party led by CK Raut have attacked a vehicle carrying the mayor of Harion Municipality of Sarlahi. The windshield of the vehicle was smashed in the attack and Mayor Ganesh Prasai was injured in the incident. He sustained an injury in his head while Deputy Mayor Renuka Poudel escaped unhurt.

LAHAN, Dec 26: Members of the Janamat party led by CK Raut vandalized over a dozen vehicles in Siraha on Sunday while protesting against the arrest of a person allegedly involved in stealing wheat seeds stored by Aourahi Rural Municipality. The accused was arrested by police in Siraha.

SPs of Dhanusha and Sarlahi transferred

October 24, 2021 13:16 pm

JANAKPURDHAM, Oct 24: The Police Headquarters has transferred the Superintendents of Police (SP) of Dhanusa and Sarlahi district. According to Umesh Ranjitkaar, Deputy Inspector General of Province 2 Police, SP Santosh Singh Rathore of Sarlahi, and SP Prakash Ranabhat of Dhanusha were transferred under the direction of the headquarters.

JANAKPURDHAM, Oct 21: Cadres of the Janmat Party, led by CK Raut, have mistreated Rajesh Kushwaha, chief of the Department of Water Supply and Sewerage Management (DWSSM), Janakpur, in the name of ‘people's action’.

KATHMANDU, Nov 24: Janamat Party led by CK Raut, who was once outlawed for his secessionist agenda, organized a mass rally in Bhrikuti Mandap area in Kathmandu against what it called “color discrimination”.

MAHOTTARI, Nov 13: Janamat Party led by C.K. Raut has fielded Anjana Devi Mandal for the November 30 by-election for the post of chairperson of Pipara rural municipality in Mahottari district.

Raut applies for party registration

April 29, 2019 07:57 am

KATHMANDU, April 29: Former secessionist leader CK Raut has filed an application at the Election Commission to register his Janamat Party.

Beginning of new inning

April 4, 2019 01:30 am

Ineptitude of the subsequent governments had propelled CK Raut to become a prominent leader of Madhes from an insignificant figure

What next for CK Raut?

March 27, 2019 01:30 am

CK Raut’s party can take up irrigation as main agenda for ending extreme poverty in Madhesh and turning agriculture into the pivot for region’s growth and modernization

All hail CK Raut

March 26, 2019 01:25 am

What CK Raut couldn’t achieve with years of protests and agitation, he secured with the stroke of a pen. Earlier this month, the government signed a peace pact with the Alliance for Independent Madhesh (AIM), a largely peaceful but secessionist movement that seeks to break out an independent Madhes from Nepal. Raut, the coordinator for AIM, signed the peace pact.

LAHAN, March 20: After CK Raut gave up his secessionist agenda, his 'craze' has started dwindling of late. Raut's cadres announced to felicitate him on Tuesday at Sahid Chowk of Lahan.

CK Raut, the leader of erstwhile Alliance for Independent Madhes (AIM), has launched a new organization named Janamat Party.

CK Raut launches Janamat Party

March 19, 2019 05:00 am

KATHMANDU, March 19: CK Raut, the leader of the Alliance for Independent Madhes (AIM) who gave up his secessionist demand by signing an agreement with the government on March 8, has launched a new party named Janamat Party to join mainstream politics.

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LAHAN, March 18: CK Raut -led Alliance for Independent Madhesh has decided to change the name and flag of the party. The ongoing meeting of the alliance has decided to rename the group name as Janamat Party, according to the assembly member of the alliance Sudeep Raj Kushwaha.

LAHAN, March 18: CK Raut-led Alliance for Independent Madhes (AIM), which recently renounced the demand for secession, has unanimously endorsed an 11-point agreement signed with the government indicating that it would join the mainstream politics. The outfit’s two-day gathering started in Lahan on Sunday.

LAHAN, March 17: A meeting of Alliance for Independent Madhesh (AIM) is starting Sunday to chart out its future course. The meeting of the outfit is taking place for the first time after its leader CK Raut signed an 11-point agreement with the government on March 8.

Govt-Raut deal seditious: Deuba

March 17, 2019 03:30 am

PALPA, March 17: Nepali Congress (NC) President Sher Bahadur Deuba on Saturday accused Prime Minister KP Oli of sedition for signing a controversial agreement with the secession campaigner CK Raut, the leader of the Alliance for Independent Madhes (AIM).

JANAKPURDHAM, March 14: Minister for Federal Affairs and General Administration Lal Babu Pandit has said that the recently forged agreement between the government and CK Raut was as per the constitutional spirit.

RUPANDEHI, March 12: Senior leader of the Nepali Congress, Ramchandra Poudel, has commented that the agreement government made recently with CK Raut was an immature move.

KATHMANDU, March 12: Main opposition party Nepali Congress has drawn its serious attention over the signing of the 11-point pact between the Nepal government and CK Raut side and their subsequent activities.

KATHMANDU, March 12: Prime Minister K P Oli has clarified that the 11-point deal signed with CK Raut on Friday included no agreement on conducting a referendum on the issues he has raised.

POKHARA, March 12: ​Assembly member of Gandaki Province Rajiv Pahari, who represents the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP), has urged the government to bring sedition charges against CK Raut and his supporters for continuing their pro-secession activities in breach of Friday's agreement with the government.

KATHMANDU, March 11: KATHMANDU, March 11: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Monday ruled out possibilities of holding referendum over the country's territorial integrity and sovereignty.

KATHMANDU, March 11: The Nepali Congress said that that the government’s decision to accept a clause that supports “public mandate” in its agreement with CK Raut led Alliance for Independent Madhes was against national sovereignty and integrity.

LAHAN, March 11: The 11-point agreement signed between CK Raut, who actively championed a Free Madhes movement for the past seven years, and the KP Oli-led government on Friday has sparked a debate in the Madhesi political circle. Various Madhes affairs analysts have interpreted the points of the agreement in their own ways.

The government of K P Sharma Oli on Friday signed an agreement with secessionist leader CK Raut paving the way to bring him into mainstream politics from the treasonous movement that he was leading for the past six years. Prime Minister Oli and Raut shook hands and praised each other.

KATHMANDU, March 11: Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa on Sunday said that Friday's agreement between the government and secession campaigner CK Raut will be null and void if Raut interpreted "people's mandate" mentioned in the agreement as an understanding to hold “referendum” on secession.

KATHMANDU, March 10: Parliamentarians have demanded the government explain the reasons for reaching an 11-point agreement with CK Raut led Independent Madhes Alliance (AIM) and questioned why or how the government accepted a clause mentioning a referendum.

KATHMANDU, March 9: The agreement signed between the government and secessionist leader CK Raut on Friday as well as remarks made since by people from both sides have caused further confusion. The two sides are interpreting the wording of the agreement in their own ways.

KATHMANDU, March 9: Communist Party of Nepal leader Bhim Rawal has expressed concern over the pact signed between the government and 'Alliance for independent Madhes' on Friday.