Jitendra Prasad Sonal

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| honorific_prefix = Honourable

| name = Jitendra Prasad Sonal

| native_name = जितेन्द्र प्रसाद सोनल

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| caption = Portrait of Sonal in 2019

| office1 = Committee president of Loktantrik Samajwadi Party, Nepal in Madhesh Province

| term_start1 = 2021

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| office = Minister for Physical Infrastructure Development of Madhesh Province

| governor =* Ratneshwar Lal Kayastha

| 1blankname = Chief Minister

| 1namedata = Lalbabu Raut

| term_start = 2017

| term_end = 2021

| predecessor = Constitution created

| successor =Ram Saroj Yadav

| office2 = Member of Madhesh Provincial Assembly

| term_start2 = 2018

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| constituency2 =Bara 4(B)

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1969|11|30}}{{cite news |title=जितेन्द्र प्रसाद सोनार |url=http://election.annapurnapost.com/candidate/1582 |work=Annapurna Media Network Election |access-date=2019-10-15 |archive-date=2021-07-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714223604/http://election.annapurnapost.com/candidate/1582 |url-status=dead }}

| birth_place = Lipanimal, Bara

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| nationality = {{flag|Nepal}}ese

| party = Loktantrik Samajwadi Party, Nepal

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Madhesi Jana Adhikar Forum, Nepal
Terai Madhesh Loktantrik Party
Rastriya Janata Party Nepal
People's Socialist Party, Nepal

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Jitendra Prasad Sonal (also known as Jitendra Prasad Sonar) is a Nepalese politician. He is parliamentary party leader for the Loktantrik Samajwadi Party, Nepal in the Provincial Assembly of Province No. 2.{{Cite web|last=Setopati|first=सेतोपाटी संवाददाता |title=जितेन्द्र सोनल भए प्रदेश २ मा लोसपा संसदीय दलको नेता|url=https://www.setopati.com/politics/250110/|access-date=2021-12-20|website=Setopati|language=hi}}

Political life

Sonal, a resident of Bara, was elected to the 2017 provincial assembly elections from Bara 4(B) with 13118 votes.{{cite news |title=बारा क्षेत्र न ४ ख मा राजपा महामन्त्री जितेन्द्र सोनल बिजयी {{!}} |url=http://samaweshinepal.com/?p=540 |work=Samaweshi Nepal.com }}{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} He was the Physical Infrastructure Minister for Province No. 2, Nepal till 6 June 2021.{{cite news |last1=Express |first1=The Annapurna |title=Unitary mindset |url=https://theannapurnaexpress.com/news/unitary-mindset-601 |work=The Annapurna Express |language=en}}{{cite news |title=प्रदेश २ को मन्त्रिपरिषद् : विजय यादव अर्थ, जितेन्द्र सोनल पूर्वाधारमन्त्री |url=http://samaweshinepal.com/?p=1116 |work=Samaweshi Nepal.com }}{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} He including 3 other state ministers were replaced by other ministersfrom Lalbabu Raut ministry on 6 June 2021 after a group of PSP-N joined government led by KP Sharma Oli and Sonal supported the same.

Sonal was re-elected as the member of provincial assembly of Madhesh Pradesh from Bara 4(B) in 2022. He currently serves as the provincial president of Loktantrik Samajwadi Party, Nepal (Madhesh Pradesh) under the leadership of Mahantha Thakur.

Electoral history

= [[2017 Nepalese provincial elections]] =

class="wikitable" ! colspan="2" \|Party !Candidate !Votes
style="background-color:#ffb300" \| \|Rastriya Janata Party Nepal \|Jitendra Prasad Sonar \|13,118
style="background-color:{{party color\|Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)}}" \| \|CPN (Maoist Centre) \|Umesh Kumar Kushwaha \|5,692
style="background-color:{{party color\|Nepali Congress}}" \| \|Nepali Congress \|Bijay Prakash Sah Rauniyar \|5,133
style="background-color:{{party color\|Independent}}"\| \|Independent \|Suresh Prasad \|3,962
style="background-color:steelblue"\| \|Rastriya Prajatantra Party (Democratic) \|Ananda Prakash Yadav \|1,231
\| colspan="2" \|Others \|1,774
colspan="3"\|Invalid votes \|1,658
colspan="2" \|Result ! colspan="2" \|RJPN gain
colspan="4" \|Source: [https://result.election.gov.np/ElectionResultCentral.aspx Election Commission]

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! colspan="2" |Party

!Candidate

!Votes

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|Rastriya Janata Party Nepal

|Jitendra Prasad Sonar

|13,118

style="background-color:{{party color|Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)}}" |

|CPN (Maoist Centre)

|Umesh Kumar Kushwaha

|5,692