Raghuji Pant is a Nepal

Nepal

Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...

ese politician, belonging to the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)

Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)

The Communist Party of Nepal , also known as CPN-UML, CPN, is one of the largest communist parties in Nepal. It was created on January 6, 1991 through the unification of the Communist Party of Nepal and the Communist Party of Nepal...

. He was previously working as a journalist. He is now head of the Publicity Department of CPN(UML). He is also a Central Committee

Central Committee

Central Committee was the common designation of a standing administrative body of communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, whether ruling or non-ruling in the twentieth century and of the surviving, mostly Trotskyist, states in the early twenty first. In such party organizations the...

 member of CPN(UML).

Pant won the Lalitpur

Lalitpur District, Nepal

Lalitpur District of 337,785. It is one of the three districts in the Kathmandu Valley, along with Kathmandu and Bhaktapur.Lalitpur District has many schools, colleges and hotels. Adarsha Vidya Mandir, St. Xavier's School, St...

-3 parliamentary seat in the 1994 election and the 1999 election.

In July 2004, he was named Minister of Labour and Transport Manangement in Sher Bahadur Deuba

Sher Bahadur Deuba

Sher Bahadur Deuba is a Nepalese politician and former Prime Minister. He is the second senior most leader of the Nepali Congress. He has twice been elected as the leader of parliamentary party of the Nepali Congress, thus enabling him to be elected twice as the Prime Minister of Nepal.He has...

's cabinet.

In April 2008, he contested the Lalitpur-3 seat in the Constituent Assembly election

Nepalese Constituent Assembly election, 2008

A general election for the Constituent Assembly was held in Nepal on 10 April 2008 after having been postponed from earlier dates of 7 June 2007 and 22 November 2007. The Nepalese Constituent Assembly will draft a new constitution; it will therefore decide, amongst other things, on the issue of...

, but was defeated by the Maoist candidate Pampha Bhusal

Pampha Bhusal

Pampha Bhusal is a Nepalese politician, belonging to the Unified Communist Party of Nepal . She is a Central Committee member of UCPN. On December 30, 2007 she was appointed as Minister for Women, Children and Social Welfare....

.