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Ashok Rai
Nepali politician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ashok Kumar Rai (Nepali: अशोककुमार राई) is a Nepalese politician and the chairman of newly formed People's Socialist Party. Rai is also the current MP for Sunsari 1.
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Quick Facts Honourable, chairman of People's Socialist Party (Nepal) ...
Ashok Kumar Rai | |
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अशोककुमार राई | |
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chairman of People's Socialist Party (Nepal) | |
Assumed office 6 June 2024 | |
Preceded by | position estabilished |
Minister of Education, Science and Technology | |
In office 31 March 2023 – 6 March 2024 | |
President | Ram Chandra Paudel |
Prime Minister | Pushpa Kamal Dahal |
Vice President | Ram Sahaya Yadav |
Preceded by | Pushpa Kamal Dahal |
Succeeded by | Sumana Shrestha |
Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha | |
Assumed office 22 December 2022 | |
Preceded by | Jay Kumar Rai |
Constituency | Sunsari 1 |
In office October 1994 – May 1999 | |
Preceded by | Kul Prasad Sharma |
Succeeded by | Shiva Kumar Basnet |
Constituency | Khotang 2 |
In office May 1991 – August 1994 | |
Preceded by | Constituency established |
Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
Constituency | Khotang 3 |
Member of 2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly for Federal Socialist Party list | |
In office 21 January 2014 – 14 October 2018 | |
Personal details | |
Born | (1957-08-30) August 30, 1957 (age 66) Udayapur District, Nepal |
Political party | Janata Samajbadi |
Other political affiliations | CPN (UML) (until 2012) FSP (2012–2015) FSF-N (2015–2019) Socialist Party (2019–2020) |
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Rai is the current Minister for Science, Education and Technology of Nepal.