Bishnu Prasad Paudel

Bishnu Prasad Paudel
विष्णुप्रसाद पौडेल
Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal
Assumed office
15 July 2024
Serving with Prakash Man Singh
PresidentRam Chandra Poudel
Prime MinisterKP Sharma Oli
Preceded byNarayan 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 byRajendra Mahato
Raghubir Mahaseth
In office
4 June 2021 – 22 June 2021
PresidentBidya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterKhadga Prasad Sharma Oli
Preceded byIshwar Pokhrel
Minister of Finance
In office
26 December 2022 – 27 February 2023
PresidentBidhya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterPushpa Kamal Dahal
Preceded byJanardan Sharma
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
In office
24 June 2021 – 12 July 2021
PresidentBidya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterKP Oli
Preceded byKhagaraj Adhikari
Succeeded byBal Krishna Khand
Minister of Industry, Commerce and Supplies
In office
24 June 2021 – 12 July 2021
PresidentBidya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterKP Oli
Preceded byRaj Kishor Yadav
Minister of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation
In office
24 June 2021 – 12 July 2021
PresidentBidya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterKP 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 bySharat Singh Bhandari
Minister for Water Resources
In office
18 August 2008 – 25 May 2009
PresidentRam Baran Yadav
Prime MinisterPushpa Kamal Dahal
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
Assumed office
18 March 2018
ConstituencyRupandehi-2
Personal details
Born (1959-11-20) 20 November 1959 (age 64)
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.

  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.