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Honourable
Bishnu Prasad Paudel
MP
विष्णुप्रसाद पौडेल
Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal
Incumbent
Assumed office
15 July 2024
Serving with Prakash Man Singh
PresidentRam Chandra Poudel
Prime MinisterKhadga Prasad Sharma Oli
Preceded byRaghubir Mahaseth
Narayan Kaji Shrestha
Rabi Lamichhane
Upendra Yadav (until 13 May 2024)
In office
26 December 2022 – 27 February 2023
PresidentBidhya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterPushpa Kamal Dahal
Preceded byhimself
Rajendra Mahato
Raghubir Mahaseth
Succeeded byPurna Bahadur Khadka
In office
4 June 2021 – 22 June 2021
PresidentBidya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterKhadga Prasad Sharma Oli
Preceded byIshwar Pokhrel Upendra Yadav
(until 24 December 2019)
Succeeded byhimself
Rajendra Mahato
Raghubir Mahaseth
Minister of Finance of Nepal
Incumbent
Assumed office
15 July 2024
PresidentRam Chandra Poudel
Prime MinisterKhadga Prasad Sharma Oli
Preceded byBarshaman Pun
In office
26 December 2022 – 27 February 2023
PresidentBidhya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterPushpa Kamal Dahal
Preceded byJanardan Sharma
Succeeded byPrakash Sharan Mahat
In office
14 October 2020 – 12 July 2021
PresidentBidya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterKhadga Prasad Sharma Oli
Preceded byDr. Yuba Raj Khatiwada
Succeeded byJanardan Sharma
In office
5 November 2015 – 1 August 2016
PresidentBidya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterKhadga Prasad Sharma Oli
Preceded byDr. Ram Saran Mahat
Succeeded byKrishna Bahadur Mahara
Minister of Home Affairs of Nepal
In office
24 June 2021 – 12 July 2021
PresidentBidya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterKhadga Prasad Sharma Oli
Preceded byKhagaraj Adhikari
Succeeded byBal Krishna Khand
Minister of Industry, Commerce and Supplies of Nepal
In office
24 June 2021 – 12 July 2021
PresidentBidya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterKhadga Prasad Sharma Oli
Preceded byRaj Kishor Yadav
Succeeded byGajendra Bahadur Hamal
Minister of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation of Nepal
In office
24 June 2021 – 12 July 2021
PresidentBidya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterKhadga Prasad Sharma Oli
Preceded bySharat Singh Bhandari
Succeeded byPampha Bhusal
Minister of Defence
In office
6 February 2011 – 29 August 2011
PresidentRam Baran Yadav
Prime MinisterJhala Nath Khanal
Preceded byBidya Devi Bhandari
Succeeded byBaburam Bhattarai
Minister for Water Resources of Nepal
In office
18 August 2008 – 25 May 2009
PresidentRam Baran Yadav
Prime MinisterPushpa Kamal Dahal
Preceded byChitra Lekha Yadav
Succeeded byPrakash Sharan Mahat
In office
October 1994 – May 1999
Preceded byHari Nepal
ConstituencyPalpa 3
Member of the Constituent Assembly / Legislature Parliament
In office
28 May 2008 – 14 October 2017
Preceded bySurya Prasad Pradhan (as MP)
ConstituencyRupandehi 4
Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office
18 March 2018
ConstituencyRupandehi-2
Personal details
Born (1959-11-20) 20 November 1959 (age 65)
Syangja, Nepal
NationalityNepali
Political partyCPN (UML) (before 2018; 2021-present)
Other political
affiliations		Nepal Communist Party (NCP) (2018-2021)
Websitebishnuprasadpaudel.com

Bishnu Prasad Paudel (Nepali: विष्णुप्रसाद पौडेल) is a Nepalese politician, who is the vice-chairman of Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist).[1] Paudel served as the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in the Third Dahal cabinet.[2] He has earlier served as Deputy Prime Minister (2021), and headed other prominent Ministries such as Finance (2020-2021, 2015-2016), Home Affairs (2021), Industry (2021), Water (2021, 2008-2009, 1994-1999) and Defence (2011).

He is a member of the House of Representatives elected from Rupandehi district, Parliamentary Constituency 2, in the election of the Federal Parliament held in 2017. He won the election with a huge margin of 22,000 votes at that time. During the second Constituent Assembly Election in 2013, he defeated the former prime minister Baburam Bhattarai from Rupendehi 4.[3]

Paudel previously successfully served as the Minister of Finance from 5 November 2015 to 1 August 2016 in the first cabinet of prime minister KP Sharma Oli. He also served as Minister of Defence from 6 February 2011 to 29 August 2011, under prime minister Jhala Nath Khanal and as the Minister for Water Resources from 18 August 2008 to 25 May 2009 under prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal. He has also served as the Minister for Youth, Sports and Culture in 1997 under prime minister Lokendra Bahadur Chand.

Early life

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Bishnu Prasad Paudel was born to Devilal Paudel and Devaki Paudel on 20 November 1959 in Syangja Nepal. He joined politics in 1976. During the Panchayat System in Nepal, he faced jail time.[4] In 1977, he passed the SLC examination and moved to Rupendehi from Syangja to start the career as a Primary School teacher and he influenced by the communist activists. He resigned from the teaching profession and joined the Communist Party at the age of 18. Paudel broke the Bhairahawa Jail and went back to people's movement. Paudel was taken to Bhairahawa jail with three thousand rupees fine in charge of state of affairs after facing the case for 3 years. He revolted in the jail after 45 days comprehensive preparation.

Political life

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  • Chief, Organization Department Communist Party of Nepal (UML) since April 2021
  • General Secretary, Communist Party of Nepal (NCP) since 2018
  • Deputy General Secretary, Communist Party of Nepal (UML), 2014 - 2018
  • Secretary of Central Committee, Communist Party of Nepal (UML), 2009 - 2014
  • Member of Standing Committee, Communist Party of Nepal (UML), 2003 - 2019
  • Member of Central Committee, Communist Party of Nepal (UML) Since 1990
  • Party Member of CPN (ML/UML) since 1977

Electoral history

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Paudel is a five time parliamentarian. He is one of the influential leader of Nepal Communist Party (UML). Currently, he is working as the Minister of Finance of the Government of Nepal. This is his third term as finance minister. He was elected from Palpa in the mid-term elections of 2051 and since then he has been contesting from Rupandehi in all the 5 elections. In which he was elected 4 times and was defeated once in 2056.He is among the very few leaders who have been elected many times in the elections of both the party and parliament under the leadership of CPN-UML. He was an elected member in the 2nd Constituent Assembly from Rupandehi when he competed against former Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai who came third.[4] He won for fifth time from the Rupandehi 2 in 2022.[5]

1994 Pratinidhi Sabha Election Palpa-3

Party Candidate Votes Status
CPN-UML Bishnu Prasad Paudel 15,766 Elected
Nepali Congress Hari Prasad Nepal 12,697 Lost

1999 Pratinidhi Sabha Election Rupendehi-3

Party Candidate Votes Status
Nepali Congress Surya Prasad Pradhan 23,697 Elected
CPN-UML Bishnu Prasad Paudel 23,033 Lost

2008 Constituent Assembly Election Rupandehi-4

Party Candidate Votes Status
CPN-UML Bishnu Prasad Paudel 15,880 Elected
CPN (Maoist) Bhakti Prasad Pandey 13,421 Lost

2013 Constituent Assembly Election Rupandehi-4

Party Candidate Votes Status
CPN-UML Bishnu Prasad Paudel 19,577 Elected
Nepali Congress Surya Prasad Pradhan 13,632 Lost

2017 Pratinidhi Sabha Election Rupandehi-2

Party Candidate Votes Status
CPN-UML Bishnu Prasad Paudel 44,009 Elected
Nepali Congress Yubaraj Giri 21,946 Lost

2022 Pratinidhi Sabha Election Rupandehi-2

Party Candidate Votes Status
CPN-UML Bishnu Prasad Paudel 27,148 Elected
Rastriya Swatantra Party Ganesh Paudel 25,781 Lost

References

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  1. ^ "Central Secretariat of CPN (UML)". CPN (UML) Official Site. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
  2. ^ "Dahal sworn in as prime minister". The Kathmandu Post. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
  3. ^ "Bishnu Paudel wins Baburam Bhattarai". Retrieved 22 November 2013.
  4. ^ a b "Nepal Election 2013". Ujjyalo Online. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  5. ^ "Former finance minister Bishnu Prasad Paudel won from Rupandehi 2". The Nepal Times. 2022-11-26.
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