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Pampha Bhusal

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Pampha Bhusal
पम्फा भुसाल
Minister of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation
In office
12 July 2021 – 26 December 2022
PresidentBidhya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterSher Bahadur Deuba
Preceded bySharat Singh Bhandari
Succeeded byRajendra Prasad Lingden
Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha
In office
4 March 2018 – December 2022
Preceded byMadan Bahadur Amatya
Succeeded byToshima Karki
ConstituencyLalitpur 3
Member of Constituent Assembly
In office
28 May 2008 – 28 May 2012
Preceded byRaghuji Pant
Succeeded byMadan Bahadur Amatya
ConstituencyLalitpur 3
Personal details
Born (1962-07-19) 19 July 1962 (age 62)[1]
Arghakhanchi District
NationalityNepali
Political partyCPN (Maoist Centre)
Other political
affiliations
CPN (Fourth Convention)
CPN (Mashal)
Samyukta Janamorcha

Pampha Bhusal (Nepali: पम्फा भुसाल) is a Nepali politician. She has served as an elected member of parliament and the constitutional assembly as well as a minister several times.[citation needed] She was the second woman to lead a political party in Nepal after Sahana Pradhan; she was the leader of the United Peoples’ Front (Samyukta Janamorcha) c. 1994.[2] On 13 July 2021 she became Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation in the newly formed cabinet under Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba.

Early life and career

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Bhusal was born c. 1963 in Kimdada, a remote village in Arghakhanchi.[2]

She entered student politics in 1977 when she was studying in the eighth grade, and four years later, in 1981, she took active membership of the Communist Party of Nepal.[2]

References

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  1. ^ संघीय संसद सदस्य, २०७४ परिचयात्मक पुस्तिका [Federal Parliament Members 2017 Introduction Booklet] (PDF) (in Nepali). Nepal: Federal Parliament Secretariat. 2021. p. 270.
  2. ^ a b c Neupane, Damodar; Bista, Dipendra (31 January 2015). "सानो छँदा : पम्फा भुसाल". Kantipur (in Nepali). Retrieved 5 August 2021.