Mahantha Thakur and Hridayesh Tripathi resigned as ministers from the cabinet of Girija Prasad Koirala in support of the Madhesh movement after the Seven Party Alliance reached a 23-point agreement with the CPN (Maoist) on 27 December 2007 in order to hold the Constituent Assembly election in April 2008.

The two along with other Madheshi leaders from the Nepali Congress and CPN (UML) formed the Terai Madhesh Loktantrik Party on 29 December 2007 with Mahantha Thakur as the founding president.

[3] The party formed the United Madheshi Democratic Front along with Madheshi Jana Adhikar Forum, Nepal and Sadbhavana Party on 9 February 2008 to stengthen the Madhesh movement and called for the formation of a single autonomous Madhesh state stretching the Terai.

[4] The front signed an eight-point agreement with the government to end the indefinite strike in the Terai on 28 February 2008.

[16] Chairman-Mahantha Thakur Co-chairman-Hridayesh Tripathi General Secretary-Brijesh Kumar Gupta, Jitendra Sonal, Jangi Lal Raya