Kathmandu, March 16 -- CK Raut, chair of the Janamat Party, has announced his retirement from parliamentary politics.

Raut's announcement came after his party's poor performance in the recently concluded parliamentary elections. The Janamat Party failed to gain the status of a national party after it did not secure at least one seat under the first-past-the-post system and fell short of the three percent vote threshold under the proportional representation category.

He himself lost the elections in Saptari-2. In the 2022 general elections, Raut won the same constituency with a wide margin, defeating a heavyweight Upendra Yadav of the Janata Samajbadi Party.

In an interview with the Prime TV programme "Janata Janna Chahanchhan", Raut co...