Khin Maung Oo

Khin Maung Oo
Chief Minister of Kayah State
In office
1 August 2021 – 31 January 2022
PresidentMyint Swe (acting)
Prime MinisterMin Aung Hlaing
Preceded byHimself (KSAC Chairman)
Succeeded byZaw Myo Tin
In office
30 March 2011 – 30 March 2016
PresidentThein Sein
Preceded byOffice Established
Succeeded byL Phaung Sho
Chairman of Kayah State Administration Council
In office
2 February 2021 – 1 August 2021
Preceded byOffice Established
Succeeded byHimself (Chief Minister)
Member of Kayah State Hluttaw
In office
2011 – 30 March 2016
Preceded byOffice Established
ConstituencyBawlakhe Township (1)
Personal details
BornMyanmar
Political partyKayah Democratic Party (since 2017)
Other political
affiliations		Union Solidarity and Development Party (2010 - 2015)

Khin Maung Oo (Burmese: ခင်မောင်ဦး; also known as Bu Reh) was the Chief Minister of Kayah State, Myanmar. He served as Chief Minister of Kayah State from 2011 to 2016 and August 2021 to January 2022 under Thein Sein and PM Min Aung Hlaing.[1][2] He was appointed as the Chairman of Kayah State Administration Council, sub-council of State Administered Council, from February 2021 to 1 August 2021.

A member of the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), he was elected to represent Bawlakhe Township Constituency No. 1 as a Kayah State Hluttaw representative in the 2010 Burmese general election.[3]

On 28 June 2015, he resigned from the USDP, along with the Kayah State ministers for transportation, electric power, industry, and Bamar ethnic affairs.[4] On 13 July 2015, the USDP released a statement that Khin Maung Oo had in fact been sacked for "disturbing party unity" and violating the party's policy for the 2015 Burmese general election.[4] The conflict was related to disagreements with the national headquarters of USDP regarding the permission for 2 government ministers, Aung Min and Soe Thein, to contest 'safe seats' in Kayah State for the elections.[5] The seats they had contested in the 2010 Burmese general election were now occupied by members of the National League for Democracy and were considered more challenging to win.[5]

Khin Maung Oo's father, Kyaw Din, was a former chairman of the Karenni State People's Council during the socialist era.[6]

  1. ^ "NOMINATIONS OF CHIEF MINISTERS FOR REGIONS AND STATES" (PDF). Euro-Burma Office. 18 February 2011. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  2. ^ "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ အမိန့်အမှတ် ၈ / ၂၀၂၂".
  3. ^ "Karenni State MPs". Alternative Asean Network on Burma. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  4. ^ a b Wa Lone (16 July 2015). "USDP chief and ministers resign in Kayah State". Myanmar Times. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  5. ^ a b Ei Ei Toe Lwin (17 July 2015). "USDP rejects requests for safe seats". Myanmar Times. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  6. ^ Zay Thu (27 August 2014). "ဒီမိုကရေစီ အစိုးရတွင်လည်း မဆလလူကြီးများ၏ သားသမီးများသာ ရာထူးကြီးများ ရယူထား". Tomorrow (in Burmese). Retrieved 9 July 2015.