Nabindra Raj Joshi

Nabindra Raj Joshi
नविन्द्रराज जोशी
Minister of Industry
In office
August 2016 – September 2017[1]
PresidentBidhya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterSher Bahadur Deuba
Preceded bySom Prasad Pandey
Succeeded bySunil Bahadur Thapa
Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha
In office
2008–2017
Succeeded byJeevan Ram Shrestha
ConstituencyKathmandu 8
12th Deputy Mayor of Kathmandu
In office
1992–1997
MayorPrem Lal Singh
Preceded byTirtha Ram Dangol
Succeeded byBidur Mainali
Personal details
Born(1964-01-08)8 January 1964
Died26 March 2021(2021-03-26) (aged 57)
Kathmandu, Nepal
NationalityNepali
Political partyNepali Congress
Alma materTribhuvan University

Nabindra Raj Joshi (Nepali: नविन्द्रराज जोशी; 8 January 1964 – 26 March 2021) was a Nepali politician and former minister for industry. Joshi joined politics as a student, becoming the general secretary of Nepal Students Union in 1986. After the re-establishment of democracy, he was elected deputy mayor of Kathmandu, serving from 1992 to 1997. After the 2006 revolution, he was twice elected to the constituent assembly, in 2008 and 2013. He was the minister of industry from 2016 to 2017 in the coalition government of Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) and Nepali Congress under the leadership of Pushpa Kamal Dahal. In the 2017 general election, he lost to Jeevan Ram Shrestha of CPN UML whom he had defeated in the previous elections.

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