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Shanta Chaudhary () is a social reformer and former member of
Constituent Assembly of Nepal The Second Constituent Assembly of Nepal, later converted to the Legislature Parliament ( ne, व्यवस्थापिका संसद), was a unicameral legislature of Nepal. It was elected in the 2013 Constituent Assembly elections a ...
as a proportioanl representative from
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party. Chaudhary was a forced child labourer as part of the, now abandoned, Kamalari system.


Biography

Chaudhary was forced to become a Kamlari when she was eight. She was leased for Rs 7,000 a year by her parents who had nine other children. She was sent to work for a family in Dang. During this time, she was forced to work for 19 hours a day, and she lived in the cowshed. She was reprimanded for her mistakes and sometimes beaten by the landlord's wife. Chaudhary remained as a servants until she was eighteen, during which time she became active in politics. She represented Dang in a forum for the lands rights movement. In 2008, Chaudhary was chosen to lead the Parliamentary Committee on Natural Resources and Means. Her illiteracy was a problem in the CA and she started taking classes. Eventually, in 2013, she published a book, ''Kamlari Dekhi Sabhasad Samma,'' about her experiences. In 2016, she was diagnosed with
uterine cancer Uterine cancer, also known as womb cancer, includes two types of cancer that develop from the tissues of the uterus. Endometrial cancer forms from the lining of the uterus, and uterine sarcoma forms from the muscles or support tissue of the ute ...
and is currently receiving treatment.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chaudhary, Shanta Living people 21st-century Nepalese women politicians 21st-century Nepalese politicians 21st-century Nepalese writers 21st-century Nepalese women writers Nepal MPs 2017–2022 Nepal Communist Party (NCP) politicians Members of the 1st Nepalese Constituent Assembly Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) politicians 1979 births