Padam Giri

Padam Giri
पदम गिरि
Minister of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs of Nepal
In office
6 March 2024 – 3 July 2024
PresidentRam Chandra Poudel
Prime MinisterPushpa Kamal Dahal
Preceded byDhanraj Gurung
Succeeded byAjay Chaurasiya
Minister of Health and Population of Nepal
In office
17 January 2023 – 27 February 2023
PresidentBidhya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterPushpa Kamal Dahal
Preceded byBhawani Prasad Khapung
Succeeded byMohan Bahadur Basnet
Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office
4 March 2018
Preceded byArjun Prasad Joshi
ConstituencyParbat 1
Personal details
Born (1977-03-11) 11 March 1977 (age 47)[1]
NationalityNepali
Political partyCPN (UML)

Padam Giri (Nepali: पदम गिरि) is a Nepali communist politician and a member of the House of Representatives of the federal parliament of Nepal.[2][3] He was elected from Parbat District representing CPN UML under the first-past-the-post system in the 2017 legislative election.[4] He defeated his nearest rival, Arjun Prasad Joshi of Nepali Congress, by acquiring 39,275 votes to Joshi's 26,819.[5] Giri served as the Minister of Health and Population from 17 January 2023 to 27 February 2023.

  1. ^ संघीय संसद सदस्य, २०७४ परिचयात्मक पुस्तिका [Federal Parliament Members 2017 Introduction Booklet] (PDF) (in Nepali). Nepal: Federal Parliament Secretariat. 2021. p. 270.
  2. ^ "Padam Giri". hr.parliament.gov.np. Retrieved 2019-10-25.
  3. ^ "New trekking route to Ghodepani". The Himalayan Times. 2019-04-06. Retrieved 2019-10-25.
  4. ^ Dahal, Ashok. "42 pc new faces in parliament under FPTP". My Republica. Retrieved 2019-10-25.
  5. ^ "Parbat : Province 4 - Nepal Election Latest Updates and Result for Federal Parliament". election.ekantipur.com. Retrieved 2019-10-25.