Pradeep Yadav (Nepalese politician)

Pradeep Yadav
प्रदीप यादव
Minister of Water Supply
Assumed office
15 July 2024
PresidentRam Chandra Poudel
Prime MinisterKP Sharma Oli
Preceded byRajendra Kumar Rai
Joint general Secretary of People's Socialist Party
Assumed office
5 May 2024
Preceded byposition established
Minister of Health and Population
In office
13 May 2024 – 8 July 2024
PresidentRam Chandra Poudel
Prime MinisterPushpa Kamal Dahal
Preceded byUpendra Yadav
Succeeded byPradip Paudel
Minister of Forests and Environment
In office
4 July 2022 – 14 October 2022
PresidentBidya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterSher Bahadur Deuba
Preceded byRam Sahaya Yadav
Succeeded bySher Bahadur Deuba
(as Prime Minister)
Member of Pratinidhi Sabha
Assumed office
4 March 2018
Preceded byRajendra Bahadur Amatya
ConstituencyParsa 1
Personal details
Born (1975-05-07) 7 May 1975 (age 49)[1]
Parsa District
NationalityNepali
Political partyPeople's Socialist Party
Other political
affiliations
Rastriya Prajatantra Party
MJF-N
PSP-N
Websitepradipyadav.com

Pradeep Yadav (Nepali: प्रदीप यादव) (born 7 May 1975) is a Nepali politician and a member of the Federal Parliament of Nepal since 2017. He is currently serving as the Minister of Water Supply of Nepal.[2][3][4]

Yadav, who is the deputy secretary general of People's Socialist Party, has also served as Minister of Health & Population from May 13, 2024, to July 8, 2024, and as Minister of Forests & Environment from July 4, 2022, to October 13, 2022.[5][6][7]

In the 2017 general election, he was elected from the Parsa 1 constituency. He repeated his candidacy from the same constituency in 2023 general election, and was elected for the second consecutive term.[8][9] Yadav has also served as the chip for the Janata Samajwadi Party Nepal from May 26, 2023, to May 5, 2024.

  1. ^ संघीय संसद सदस्य, २०७४ परिचयात्मक पुस्तिका [Federal Parliament Members 2017 Introduction Booklet] (PDF) (in Nepali). Nepal: Federal Parliament Secretariat. 2021. p. 270. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-07-04. Retrieved 2022-07-04.
  2. ^ "21 ministers also sworn in". Setopati. Retrieved 2024-07-15.
  3. ^ "New Ministers of the cabinet take oath with President". onlineradionepal. Retrieved 2024-07-15.
  4. ^ Samiti, Rastriya Samachar (2024-05-13). "t one time, 3 MPs from Parsa became ministers". The Himalayan Times. Retrieved 2024-05-13.
  5. ^ Setopati (2022-05-13). "JSP's Pradeep Yadav sworn in as health minister, Hasina Khan minister of state". The Himalayan Times. Retrieved 2024-05-13.
  6. ^ "President administers oath to three Janata Samajbadi ministers". kathmandupost.com. Retrieved 2024-05-13.
  7. ^ "Prime minister sacks four Janata Samajbadi ministers". kathmandupost.com. Retrieved 2024-05-13.
  8. ^ Sureis (2017-12-12). "Madhesi alliance dominates Parsa poll results". The Himalayan Times. Archived from the original on 2021-06-11. Retrieved 2021-06-24.
  9. ^ "Election Commission of Nepal" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-05-12. Retrieved 2021-05-13.