Chandra Kant Raut (), popularly known as CK Raut, is a Nepali Member of Parliament (MP), computer Missile engineer, former United States Defense Programmer, author, politician and activist. He is gold medalist in Bachelors of Engineering from Tribhuvan University. He was active in the Alliance for Independent Madhesh, to establish a country for the Madhesi people. In 2022 Nepalese general election, he was elected as a Member of Parliament of the Pratinidhi Sabha. He defeated the incumbent Upendra Yadav, a former minister. In the past, he has been frequently placed under house-arrest by the Government of Nepal. He quitted the movement for another single country and joined the mainstream politics forming Janamat Party in 2019. Early life Raut was born in Mahadeva village of Saptari district of Nepal. He attended primary school in his village and high school in Laxmi Ballav Narsingh Secondary School in Babhangama Katti. He went on to study at Tribhuvan University (Nepal), Tokyo University (Japan) and Cambridge University (UK). He is a recipient of Young Nepalese Engineer Award, Mahendra Bidhya Bhusan, Kulratna Gold Medal, and Trofimenkoff Academic Achievement Award. Political life Alliance for Independent Madhesh Raut was the president and the founding member of Alliance for Independent Madhesh, which in its manifesto has described itself as a coalition of Terai people discriminated by Pahadi civilisation. It has people of various sub-ethnicities, activists, parties and various organisations who are working towards establishing an independent Madhesh. Although it was established in 2007, it did not announce their manifesto until a press conference in Kathmandu on 21 May 2012. The manifesto states the main objective of the alliance is to achieve independence of Madhesh through peaceful and non-violent means. It has also demanded an end an end to racism, slavery and discrimination imposed on Nepali people of Madheshi origin by the Pahadi people. It claims to have three pillars: independent Madhesh of Nepal, non-violence and peaceful means, and a democratic system. Arrest On 13 September 2014, the Government of Nepal arrested Raut for on the grounds of sedition after giving a speech to a gathering of Santhals, an indigenous population of Nepalese, in their annual festival. After his arrest, Raut began to fast in protest, arguing that his right to freedom and expression was being violated by the government. He was subsequently hospitalized on 25 September after complaints of severe stomach pain. Nepali Congress Vice-President Ram Chandra Poudel, Minister