Bishnu Prasad Paudel

Honourable
Bishnu Prasad Paudel
MP
Honourable Bishnu Prasad Paudel MP
विष्णुप्रसाद पौडेल
Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal
	In office; 26 December 2022 – 27 February 2023 Serving with Narayan Kaji Shrestha, Rabi Lamichhane and Rajendra Prasad Lingden
President	Bidhya Devi Bhandari
Prime Minister	Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Preceded by	Rajendra Mahato; Raghubir Mahaseth
	In office; 4 June 2021 – 22 June 2021 Serving with Rajendra Mahato and Raghubir Mahaseth
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	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.

Early life[edit]

Bishnu Prasad Paudel was born to Devilal Paudel and Devaki Paudel on 20 November 1959 in Syangja Nepal. He joined politics in 1976. During the Panchayat System in Nepal, he faced jail time.^[4] In 1977, he passed the SLC examination and moved to Rupendehi from Syangja to start the career as a Primary School teacher and he influenced by the communist activists. He resigned from the teaching profession and joined the Communist Party at the age of 18. Paudel broke the Bhairahawa Jail and went back to people's movement. Paudel was taken to Bhairahawa jail with three thousand rupees fine in charge of state of affairs after facing the case for 3 years. He revolted in the jail after 45 days comprehensive preparation.

Political life[edit]

Chief, Organization Department Communist Party of Nepal (UML) since April 2021
General Secretary, Communist Party of Nepal (NCP) since 2018
Deputy General Secretary, Communist Party of Nepal (UML), 2014 - 2018
Secretary of Central Committee, Communist Party of Nepal (UML), 2009 - 2014
Member of Standing Committee, Communist Party of Nepal (UML), 2003 - 2019
Member of Central Committee, Communist Party of Nepal (UML) Since 1990
Party Member of CPN (ML/UML) since 1977

Electoral history[edit]

Paudel is a five time parliamentarian. He is one of the influential leader of Nepal Communist Party (UML). Currently, he is working as the Minister of Finance of the Government of Nepal. This is his third term as finance minister. He was elected from Palpa in the mid-term elections of 2051 and since then he has been contesting from Rupandehi in all the 5 elections. In which he was elected 4 times and was defeated once in 2056.He is among the very few leaders who have been elected many times in the elections of both the party and parliament under the leadership of CPN-UML. He was an elected member in the 2nd Constituent Assembly from Rupandehi when he competed against former Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai who came third.^[4] He won for fifth time from the Rupandehi 2 in 2022.^[5]

1994 Pratinidhi Sabha Election Palpa-3

Party	Candidate	Votes	Status
CPN-UML	Bishnu Prasad Paudel	15,766	Elected
Nepali Congress	Hari Prasad Nepal	12,697	Lost

1999 Pratinidhi Sabha Election Rupendehi-3

Party	Candidate	Votes	Status
Nepali Congress	Surya Prasad Pradhan	23,697	Elected
CPN-UML	Bishnu Prasad Paudel	23,033	Lost

2008 Constituent Assembly Election Rupandehi-4

Party	Candidate	Votes	Status
CPN-UML	Bishnu Prasad Paudel	15,880	Elected
CPN (Maoist)	Bhakti Prasad Pandey	13,421	Lost

2013 Constituent Assembly Election Rupandehi-4

Party	Candidate	Votes	Status
CPN-UML	Bishnu Prasad Paudel	19,577	Elected
Nepali Congress	Surya Prasad Pradhan	13,632	Lost

2017 Pratinidhi Sabha Election Rupandehi-2

Party	Candidate	Votes	Status
CPN-UML	Bishnu Prasad Paudel	44,009	Elected
Nepali Congress	Yubaraj Giri	21,946	Lost

2022 Pratinidhi Sabha Election Rupandehi-2

Party	Candidate	Votes	Status
CPN-UML	Bishnu Prasad Paudel	27,148	Elected
Rastriya Swatantra Party	Ganesh Paudel	25,781	Lost

References[edit]

^ "Central Secretariat of CPN (UML)". CPN (UML) Official Site. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
^ "Dahal sworn in as prime minister". The Kathmandu Post. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
^ "Bishnu Paudel wins Baburam Bhattarai". Retrieved 22 November 2013.
^ ^a ^b "Nepal Election 2013". Ujjyalo Online. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
^ "Former finance minister Bishnu Prasad Paudel won from Rupandehi 2". The Nepal Times. 2022-11-26.

[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.

[Kathmandu_Post-3] "Bishnu Paudel wins Baburam Bhattarai". Retrieved 22 November 2013.

[Ujjyalo_Election13-4] "Nepal Election 2013". Ujjyalo Online. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 6 November 2015.

[5] "Former finance minister Bishnu Prasad Paudel won from Rupandehi 2". The Nepal Times. 2022-11-26.

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