The Janamat Party and Nagarik Unmukti Party, the two parties that emerged as dominant regional forces in the eastern and western Tarai region in the recently held general elections, have reached an agreement to move ahead by forging a working alliance.

Janamat Party Chairman CK Raut and Nagarik Unmukti Party Chairperson Ranjeeta Shrestha Chaudhary signed a 12-point agreement on forging a working alliance on Sunday.

“In view of the changing political scenario and as per our commitment to move ahead in collaboration with the parties that have common issues and ideologies to make the national politics people-oriented and result-oriented, we, the Janmat Party and the Nagarik Unmukti Party, the alternative emerging political forces, have agreed to forge an working alliance,” reads a statement jointly issued by the two parties.

The parties, in the statement, said that the alliance will move ahead to create a favourable political environment for people from the indigenous, Madheshi, Muslim, Dalit, Tharu, and other marginalised communities and women, and to work and pressurise the government for the welfare of the people.

The Janamat Party secured six federal seats while the Nagarik Unmukti Party won four seats in the November polls. 

Raut joined mainstream politics by signing an agreement with the then-KP Sharma Oli-led government in 2019.

The Nagarik Unmukti Party leader Resham Chaudhary is currently serving time in prison after being convicted in the 2015 Tikapur incident in which nine people were killed in a violent clash.