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Parmanand Jha ((ネパール語:परमानन्द झा); born 1944) is a Nepalese politician who served as the Vice President of Nepal between 2008 and 2015. Previously he served as a Supreme Court judge. He was born and brought up in Darbhanga in Indian State of Bihar with his maternal uncle's home to a Nepali parents - according to Hindu traditions. His father's belongs to Nepalese Mithila, a subject of Nepal, and so a citizen of Nepal.〔(वन इंडिया » देश उपराष्ट्रपति का भाई साईकिल का दुकानदार ) ''Oneindia.in''. Published 25 July 2008. Retrieved 8 October 2013〕 Jha resigned as a judge in December 2007 after he was not proposed by the Judicial Council as a permanent judge at the apex court, following allegations of involvement in drug smuggling. Later, Jha joined political life and became a member of the Madhesi Janadhikar Forum, one of several organizations agitating against dominance of Nepal's politics, etc., by the minority hill population as against the Madhesias, a collection of plains countries ethnicities with Terai tendencies espousing Hindi as their lingua franca. On 19 July 2008, he was elected as Vice-President of Nepal by the Constituent Assembly.〔 He began his first term of office as Vice-President of Nepal on 23 July 2008 by taking the oath of office from President Ram Baran Yadav at the Sheetal Niwas Presidential Palace in Hindi in the presence of Prime Minister Girijaprasad Koirala and others. ==Hindi oath controversy== Jha's legitimacy as Vice-President was challenged for taking the oath of office in Hindi by Madhesi and other Hill and Terai ethnicities that have dominated Nepal's politics.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Unknown (dead link) )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Mind your language, Mr. Vice President )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 date = 28 July 2008 )〕 Jha's mother tongue is Maithili but he is also fluent in Nepali, Bengali, Hindi and English. A written petition was filed by Advocate Balkrishna Neupane and other Madhesi parties at the apex court claiming that the oath was unconstitutional as it was taken in a language not recognized by the interim constitution.〔 After a year long court procedure, the Supreme Court on 24 July 2009 ordered Jha to retake the oath of office and secrecy for the second time "in accordance with the Constitution," ruling that taking oath in Hindi was not constitutional. However, Jha objected to the Supreme Court verdict, accusing the court of being biased and of conflict of interests. He stated that he would decide whether or not to retake the oath after consulting political parties and the "people he represents," i.e., the Madhesias who principally speak Bhojpuri, Maithili and other plains languages and who never considered Hindi their de facto "national language." He demanded changes to the law to ensure that all languages (i.e., Hindi) "are given due respect." The Supreme Court's deadline for retaking the oath expired on 30 August 2009. As Jha did not swear once again the oath of office, the office was considered to have become vacant from 31 August 2009. In order to maintain political and ethnic inclusiveness, the Nepalese government did not seek a new Vice-President but continued to work with Jha towards a compromise, seeking to re-instate him. Changes were made to the law to allow the oath of office to be taken in native ethnic languages, e.g., Jha's native Maithili, and on 7 February 2010, he accordingly took a fresh oath of office as Vice-President in the Maithili language. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Parmanand Jha」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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