Jana Andolan Party (JAP) or All India Jana Andolan Party (AIJAP) is a political party based in

Kalimpong district Kalimpong district is a List of districts in India, district in the state of West Bengal, India. In 2017, it was carved out as a separate district to become the 21st district of West Bengal. The district is headquartered at Kalimpong, which g ...

and Darjeeling district of

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. JAP was founded in 2016. The president of the party is Dr. Harka Bahadur Chhetri, who is a former MLA of

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Election history

JAP contested the

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state assembly election from

in 2016. Its candidate Harka Bahadur Chhetri lost narrowly to

Gorkha Janmukti Morcha The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) is a registered unrecognized political party, that campaigns for the creation of a separate state Gorkhaland within India, out of districts in the north of West Bengal. The party was launched on 7 October 2007. T ...

candidate Sarita Rai. In the 2017

municipality elections, JAP won two seats. In 2019, Harka Bahadur Chhetri unsuccessfully contested the

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election from Darjeeling constituency. Amar Lama from JAP contested the

assembly by-election from Darjeeling assembly constituency in 2019 but lost.

References

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