Narayan Prakash Saud

Narayan Prakash Saud (नारायण प्रकाश साउद, commonly known as NP Saud) is a Nepali politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from April 2023 to March 2024. A central member of Nepali Congress, Saud previously served as the Minister of Irrigation from 25 February 2014 to 11 October 2015 in Sushil Koirala's cabinet. He is a member of the Pratinidhi Sabha from Kanchanpur 2, having won the seat in the 2022 general election.

First elelcted to the Pratinidhi Sabha from Kanchanpur 1 in the 1999 general election, Saud served as the Minister of State for Education and Sports from 1999 to 2001. He opted to switch seat to Kanchapur 2 in the 2008 Constituent Assembly election, but was defeated by CPN (Maoist)'s Devi Lal Chaudhary. He was elected from Kanchanpur 2 in the 2013 CA election, but was again defeated in the 2017 general election. Saud won the seat back in 2022, defeating the sitting member, Nar Bahadur Dhami of CPN (UML).