Bijay Subba (born December 27, 1957) is a Nepali politician and a member of the

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of the

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. He is the older brother of Deputy House Speaker

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, and has a PhD in

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from

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. He was a long time member of

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, the party he "deserted" to join Sanghiya Samajwadi Party but returned soon after, and was again appointed to the party's central committee in 2015. He also chaired the subcommittee for Citizenship Bill development formed under the State Affairs and Good Governance Committee of parliament in 2019. He was elected to the parliament in 2017 from CPN UML under the

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Living people Nepal MPs 2017–2022 Nepal MPs 1991–1994 Nepal MPs 1999–2002 Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) politicians 1957 births {{Nepal-politician-stub