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.

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 61)[1]
Arghakhanchi District
NationalityNepali
Political partyCPN (Maoist Centre)
Other political
affiliations
CPN (Fourth Convention)
CPN (Mashal)
Samyukta Janamorcha

Early life and career edit

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 edit

  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.