Bishnu Prasad Paudel

Honourable Bishnu Prasad Paudel MP
विष्णुप्रसाद पौडेल
Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 July 2024 Serving with Prakash Man Singh
President	Ram Chandra Poudel
Prime Minister	KP Sharma Oli
Preceded by	Narayan Kaji Shrestha Rabi Lamichhane Upendra Yadav (until 13 May 2024)
In office 26 December 2022 – 27 February 2023 Serving with Rajendra Mahato and Raghubir Mahaseth
President	Bidhya Devi Bhandari
Prime Minister	Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Preceded by	Rajendra Mahato Raghubir Mahaseth
In office 4 June 2021 – 22 June 2021
President	Bidya Devi Bhandari
Prime Minister	Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli
Preceded by	Ishwar Pokhrel
Minister of Finance
In office 26 December 2022 – 27 February 2023
President	Bidhya Devi Bhandari
Prime Minister	Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Preceded by	Janardan Sharma
In office 14 October 2020 – 12 July 2021
President	Bidya Devi Bhandari
Prime Minister	Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli
Preceded by	Dr. Yuba Raj Khatiwada
Succeeded by	Janardan Sharma
In office 5 November 2015 – 1 August 2016
President	Bidya Devi Bhandari
Prime Minister	Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli
Preceded by	Dr. Ram Saran Mahat
Succeeded by	Krishna Bahadur Mahara
Minister of Home Affairs
In office 24 June 2021 – 12 July 2021
President	Bidya Devi Bhandari
Prime Minister	KP Oli
Preceded by	Khagaraj Adhikari
Succeeded by	Bal Krishna Khand
Minister of Industry, Commerce and Supplies
In office 24 June 2021 – 12 July 2021
President	Bidya Devi Bhandari
Prime Minister	KP Oli
Preceded by	Raj Kishor Yadav
Minister of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation
In office 24 June 2021 – 12 July 2021
President	Bidya Devi Bhandari
Prime Minister	KP Oli
Preceded by	Sharat Singh Bhandari
Succeeded by	Pampha Bhusal
Minister of Defence
In office 6 February 2011 – 29 August 2011
President	Ram Baran Yadav
Prime Minister	Jhala Nath Khanal
Preceded by	Bidya Devi Bhandari
Succeeded by	Sharat Singh Bhandari
Minister for Water Resources
In office 18 August 2008 – 25 May 2009
President	Ram Baran Yadav
Prime Minister	Pushpa Kamal Dahal
In office October 1994 – May 1999
Preceded by	Hari Nepal
Constituency	Palpa 3
Member of the Constituent Assembly / Legislature Parliament
In office 28 May 2008 – 14 October 2017
Preceded by	Surya Prasad Pradhan (as MP)
Constituency	Rupandehi 4
Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 18 March 2018
Constituency	Rupandehi-2
Personal details
Born	(1959-11-20) 20 November 1959 (age 64) Syangja, Nepal
Nationality	Nepali
Political party	CPN (UML) (before 2018; 2021-present)
Other political affiliations	Nepal Communist Party (NCP) (2018-2021)
Website	bishnuprasadpaudel.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.