Nabindra Raj Joshi | |
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नविन्द्रराज जोशी | |
Minister of Industry | |
In office August 2016 – September 2017[1] | |
President | Bidhya Devi Bhandari |
Prime Minister | Sher Bahadur Deuba |
Preceded by | Som Prasad Pandey |
Succeeded by | Sunil Bahadur Thapa |
Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha | |
In office 2008–2017 | |
Succeeded by | Jeevan Ram Shrestha |
Constituency | Kathmandu 8 |
12th Deputy Mayor of Kathmandu | |
In office 1992–1997 | |
Mayor | Prem Lal Singh |
Preceded by | Tirtha Ram Dangol |
Succeeded by | Bidur Mainali |
Personal details | |
Born | 8 January 1964 |
Died | 26 March 2021 Kathmandu, Nepal | (aged 57)
Nationality | Nepali |
Political party | Nepali Congress |
Alma mater | Tribhuvan 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.