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Krishna Gopal Shrestha (Nepali: कृष्ण गोपाल श्रेष्ठ) is a Nepali communist politician and former minister of Nepal. He is a politician belonging to main opposition party of Nepal CPN(UML).
Krishna Gopal Shrestha | |
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कृष्ण गोपाल श्रेष्ठ | |
Minister of Education, Science and Technology | |
In office 25 December 2020 – 13 July 2021 | |
President | Bidya Devi Bhandari |
Prime Minister | KP Oli |
Preceded by | Giriraj Mani Pokharel |
Succeeded by | Devendra Paudel |
Minister of Forests and Environment | |
In office 24 June 2021 – 12 July 2021 | |
President | Bidya Devi Bhandari |
Prime Minister | KP Oli |
Preceded by | Narad Muni Rana |
Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Security | |
In office 24 June 2021 – 13 July 2021 | |
President | Bidya Devi Bhandari |
Prime Minister | KP Oli |
Preceded by | Bimal Prasad Shrivastav |
Minister of Youth and Sports | |
In office 24 June 2021 – 13 July 2021 | |
President | Bidya Devi Bhandari |
Prime Minister | KP Oli |
Preceded by | Ekbal Miya |
Minister of Health and Population | |
In office 24 June 2021 – 13 July 2021 | |
President | Bidya Devi Bhandari |
Prime Minister | KP Oli |
Preceded by | Sher Bahadur Tamang |
Minister of Urban Development | |
In office 14 October 2020 – 25 December 2020 | |
President | Bidya Devi Bhandari |
Prime Minister | KP Oli |
State Minister for Local Development | |
In office 10 June 2004 – 2 February 2005 | |
Monarch | Gyanendra Shah |
Prime Minister | Sher Bahadur Deuba |
Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha | |
Assumed office 4 March 2018 | |
Preceded by | Dhyan Govinda Ranjit |
Constituency | Kathmandu 9 |
In office October 1994 – May 1999 | |
Preceded by | Constituency created |
Succeeded by | Tirtha Ram Dangol |
Constituency | Kathmandu 9 |
In office 1992 – August 1994 | |
Preceded by | Madan Bhandari |
Succeeded by | Rajendra Prasad Shrestha |
Constituency | Kathmandu 5 |
Personal details | |
Born | September 22, 1958 |
Nationality | Nepali |
Political party | CPN (UML) |
Other political affiliations | CPN (ML) |
Shrestha joined politics in 1979 as a member of CPN ML, the predecessor of CPN UML.[1] He was arrested and imprisoned multiple times during the fight against the partyless Panchayat system.[1] He became the party's Kathmandu district secretary in 1982.[1] He became Bhaktapur district secretary in 1986, and Lalitpur district secretary in 1990.[1] After the formation of CPN UML, he had remained the party's central committee member from 1998 to 2018, when the party was merged with CPN (Maoist Centre).[1]
He was elected from Kathmandu-5 constituency in the by-election of 1992, after party secretary Madan Bhandari vacated the seat.[1] He won the 1994 legislative election from Kathmandu-7 constituency.[1] He was defeated in Kathmandu-9 in the 1999 election.
He was appointed the State Minister for Local Development in 2005.[1]
In the 2008 constituent assembly election, he contested from Kathmandu-9 again, but was defeated. In the 2013 election for the second constituent assembly, he was the CPN UML candidate in Kathmandu-9 constituency but lost again to his longtime rival Dhyan Govinda Ranjit of Nepali Congress.[1][2]
In the 2017 election, he was elected from Kathmandu-9 constituency representing CPN UML of the left alliance.[3]
Following the merger of CPN UML with CPN (Maoist Centre), he was appointed the deputy chief of the treasury and financial management department of the new party.[4]
He was born on October 1, 1958, to Hari Lal and Hari Maya Shrestha in Kathmandu.[1] He has said that he came from a humble background, and was admitted directly to the fifth grade, having been self-taught up to that point.[1] He went on to achieve a Master's Degree in Economics.[1] He has two daughters.[1]
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