Are madhesis under-represented and opressed? here is something from an earlier post by me. Lets talk Judiciary Chief Justice & Supreme Court Justices - Pahadi - 18, Madhesi - 2 Chief Justices of Appeal Court - Pahadi - 10, Madhesi - 2 Judges of Appeal Court - Pahadi - 64, Madhesi - 9 Judges of District Court - Pahadi - 123, Madhesi - 8 First Class Officers in juducial services - Pahadi - 18, Madhesi - 0 Source : HMG (2001), Nyay Parishad Bulletin, Nyay Parishad Secretariat How about politics (*) Central Committee members Nepali Congress - Pahadi - 35, Madhesi - 3 CPN UML - Pahadi - 65, Madhesi - 4 NC(D) - Pahadi - 25, Madhesi - 5 Jan Morcha - Pahadi - 43, Madhesi - 1 as of Jan. 2006. count them Madhesi members of parliament as of 1999 - 20% how about media? Management committees of press council, radio nepal, gorkhapatra, NTVm RSS -- 6% madhesis dont have the numbers of police, armed police, army and maoist but anyone can tell u its all pahadis. (*) I am not counting Sadbhavana cause they are not a madhesi party, they are an indian party. They proliferate Indian propaganda, they speak hindi, not maithili, bhojpuri or avadi. and lets face it, they never win any significant number of seats :-)