Agni Prasad Sapkota

Agni Prasad Sapkota
अग्नि प्रसाद सापकोटा
Speaker of the Pratinidhi Sabha
In office
27 January 2020 – 25 September 2022
PresidentBidhya Devi Bhandari
Prime Minister
DeputyPushpa Bhusal (Gautam)
Preceded byKrishna Bahadur Mahara
Succeeded byDev Raj Ghimire
Minister for Forests and Soil Conservation
In office
October 2015 – July 2016
PresidentBidhya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterKhadga Prasad Oli
Preceded byMahesh Acharya
Succeeded byShankar Bhandari
Minister for Information and Communications
In office
May 2011 – July 2011
PresidentRam Baran Yadav
Prime MinisterJhala Nath Khanal
Preceded byKrishna Bahadur Mahara
Succeeded byJaya Prakash Gupta
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
4 March 2018 – 18 September 2022
Preceded byMohan Bahadur Basnet (as member of the Legislature Parliament)
Succeeded byMadhav Sapkota
ConstituencySindhupalchok 1
Member of the Constituent Assembly / Legislature Parliament
In office
28 May 2008 – 14 October 2017
Preceded bySubas Karmacharya (as member of the House of Representatives)
Succeeded bySher Bahadur Tamang (as member of the House of Representatives)
ConstituencySindhupalchok 2
Personal details
Born (1958-03-07) 7 March 1958 (age 66)[1]
Kubhinde, Sindhupalchok District, Nepal
Political partyCPN (Maoist Centre) (1994-2018, 2021-present)
Other political
affiliations
Nepal Communist Party (NCP) (2018–2021)
CPN (Unity Centre) (1990-1994)
CPN (Fourth Convention) (before 1990)
SpouseTara Devi Sapkota
Parents
  • Dhanpati Sapkota (father)
  • Tilmaya Sapkota (mother)
Alma materTribhuvan University

Agni Prasad Sapkota (Nepali: अग्नि प्रसाद सापकोटा; born 7 March 1958) is a Nepalese politician and former speaker of the House of Representatives. He was elected speaker unopposed on 26 January 2020, after the previous speaker, Krishna Bahadur Mahara, resigned over allegations of attempted sexual assault.[2]

Sapkota previously served as a minister in the cabinets of prime ministers Jhala Nath Khanal and KP Sharma Oli.

  1. ^ संघीय संसद सदस्य, २०७४ परिचयात्मक पुस्तिका [Federal Parliament Members 2017 Introduction Booklet] (PDF) (in Nepali). Nepal: Federal Parliament Secretariat. 2021. p. 270.
  2. ^ "Sapkota elected HoR speaker unopposed". The Himalayan Times. 2020-01-27. Retrieved 2020-02-12.