KP Sharma Oli Sher Bahadur Deuba Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Vice President
Parmanand Jha Nanda Kishor Pun
Deputy Prime Ministers
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Chandra Prakash Mainali
Chitra Bahadur KC
Bhim Bahadur Rawal
Bimalendra Nidhi
Krishna Bahadur Mahara
Bijay Kumar Gachhadar
Gopal Man Shrestha
Krishna Bahadur Mahara
Kamal Thapa
Ishwor Pokharel
Upendra Yadav
Bishnu Prasad Paudel
Raghubir Mahaseth
Rajendra Mahato
Narayan Kaji Shrestha
Bishnu Prasad Paudel
Rabi Lamichhane
Preceded by
Ram Baran Yadav
Succeeded by
Ram Chandra Poudel
Minister of Defence
In office 25 May 2009 – 6 February 2011
President
Ram Baran Yadav
Prime Minister
Madhav Kumar Nepal
Preceded by
Ram Bahadur Thapa
Succeeded by
Bijay Kumar Gachhadar
Minister for Environment and Population
In office 25 March 1997 – 7 October 1997
Monarch
King Birendra
Prime Minister
Lokendra Bahadur Chand
Member of the House of Representatives
In office November 1994 – April 2008
Preceded by
Daman Nath Dhungana
Succeeded by
Jhakku Prasad Subedi
Constituency
Kathmandu–2
In office January 1994 – August 1994
Preceded by
Madan Bhandari
Succeeded by
Man Mohan Adhikari
Constituency
Kathmandu–1
Member of the Constituent Assembly / Legislature Parliament
In office 28 May 2008 – 28 October 2015
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Personal details
Born
Bidya Pandey
(1961-06-19) 19 June 1961 (age 62) Mane Bhanjyang, Bhojpur, Kingdom of Nepal (present day Mane Bhanjyang, Ramprasadrai Rural Municipality, Bhojpur, Koshi Province, Nepal
Political party
Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)[1] (until 2015)
Bidya Devi Bhandari (Nepali: विद्यादेवी भण्डारी, pronounced[bid̚djadebibʱʌɳɖaɾi]; born 19 June 1961) is a Nepali former politician who served as the second president of Nepal from 2015 to 2023. She formerly served as the minister of defence and minister of environment and population.
She was the first woman to hold the office in the country.[2][3] She served as the vice-chairperson of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) and was the chair of the All Nepal Women's Association before being elected president.[4][5][6] Bhandari previously served as the Minister of Defence, the first woman to hold the office, from 2009 to 2011.[7][8][9] She also served as the Minister of Environment and Population in 1997, and has been an active campaigner for environmental awareness and women's rights in Nepal.[10] In June 2017, she visited the headquarters of the International Union for Conservation of Nature in Gland, Switzerland and met with the director general Inger Andersen to discuss enhanced collaboration on nature conservation and sustainable development.[11] In 2016, Forbes placed her as number 52 in their list of the world's 100 most powerful women.[5]
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