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 61); 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[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]

^ 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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