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Ram Kumari Jhakri is the President of All Nepal National Free Student Union (ANNFSU). Ram Kumari Jhakri ran for the presidential election of ANNFSU, a student wing of the Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist Leninist), CPN (UML), in its 19th National Conference in Pokhara in September 2008. After a keen competition with a male candidate she came out as a victor. She rewrote the history of Nepali politics by becoming the first woman president of any student organization in the country.

Since her childhood Ram Kumari was a girl with rebellious mind. She was highly influenced by Karl Marx's ideology on class struggles which she had heard from her teacher when she was in sixth grade. She said, "Marxism gave me a perspective to look at the society. I was also influenced by my brother Padam Jhakri who was politically active during school days. Through my brother I established my connections with people related to the political party." Even after the political change in 1990 she felt that there was no change in various kinds of discrimination in Nepali society. As a woman from a poor family in a remote village who belongs to ethnic minority, Ram Kumari herself had to face various hardships. She wanted to end all kinds of discrimination.

Ram Kumari was also chosen by the CPN (UML) as a candidate for proportional representations in the Constituent Assembly but she withdrew her name from it. She explained a reason; "ANNFSU is seeking for an independent role as a student organization. If I accepted an offer from the party ANNFSU would look like just one of departments of the CPN (UML). I didn't like that. Instead, I made up my mind to contest for the election of an ANNFSU president."

She was the first woman candidate to stand for a seat of a president in the history of any student organization. Her slogan for the campaign was "Make the History - Break the History!" and she made a history by winning the election. Winning the election was only the tip of an iceberg. Her potential as an 'ice breaker' is much bigger than that.