Pampha Bhusal

Pampha Bhusal
Pampha Bhusal
पम्फा भुसाल
Minister of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation
	In office; 12 July 2021 – 26 December 2022
President	Bidhya Devi Bhandari
Prime Minister	Sher Bahadur Deuba
Preceded by	Sharat Singh Bhandari
Succeeded by	Rajendra Prasad Lingden
Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha
	In office; 4 March 2018 – December 2022
Preceded by	Madan Bahadur Amatya
Succeeded by	Toshima Karki
Constituency	Lalitpur 3
Member of Constituent Assembly
	In office; 28 May 2008 – 28 May 2012
Preceded by	Raghuji Pant
Succeeded by	Madan Bahadur Amatya
Constituency	Lalitpur 3
Personal details
Born	19 July 1962 (age 62); Arghakhanchi District
Nationality	Nepali
Political party	CPN (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

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

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

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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.

[:0-2] Neupane, Damodar; Bista, Dipendra (31 January 2015). "सानो छँदा : पम्फा भुसाल". Kantipur (in Nepali). Retrieved 5 August 2021.

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