Lila Nath Shrestha

Honourable
Lila Nath Shrestha
लिलानाथ श्रेष्ठ
Minister of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs
In office
25 December 2020 – 12 July 2021
PresidentBidya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterKP Oli
Preceded byShiva Maya Tumbahamphe
Succeeded byGyanendra Bahadur Karki
Minister of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation
In office
24 June 2021 – 12 July 2021
PresidentBidya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterKP Oli
Preceded byLaxman Lal Karna
Minister of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation
In office
24 June 2021 – 12 July 2021
PresidentBidya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterKP Oli
Preceded byUma Shankar Aragriya
Minister of Federal Affairs and General Administration
In office
24 June 2021 – 12 July 2021
PresidentBidya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterKP Oli
Preceded byGanesh Kumar Pahadi
Minister of Women, Children and Senior Citizens
In office
14 October 2020 – 25 December 2020
PresidentBidya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterKP Oli
Preceded byParbat Gurung
Succeeded byJulie Kumari Mahato
In office
24 June 2021 – 12 July 2021
PresidentBidya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterKhadga Prasad Sharma Oli
Preceded byJulie Kumari Mahato
Succeeded byUma Regmi
Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office
4 March 2018
Preceded bySita Devi Yadav
ConstituencySiraha 3
Personal details
Born (1962-01-28) January 28, 1962 (age 62)[1]
NationalityNepali
Political partyCPN (UML)

Lila Nath Shrestha (born 28 January 1962) is a Nepali communist politician and a member of the House of Representatives of the federal parliament of Nepal.[2] He was the former Minister of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs and also served as Minister of Women, Children and Senior Citizens . He joined politics as a student and has remained a prominent communist politician from Siraha District.

Biography

Born on 28 January 1962 to Jit Bahadur and Dhan Maya Shrestha, in Chandralalpur-2 of Siraha, he is a graduate in Law and has two children – a son and a daughter.[3]

He joined politics as a student in 1980, and went on to become a prominent member of the student wing of CPN ML, ANNFSU, and later the youth wing of CPN UML.[3] He was a long-time member and prominent leader of CPN UML in Siraha District, until the party's dissolution in 2018.[3] Following the merger of CPN UML and CPN (Maoist Centre), he was appointed the "District Incharge" of Siraha for the newly formed Nepal Communist Party (NCP).[4]

He was the candidate for the second constituent assembly in the 2013 election from CPN UML, but was defeated by Pushpa Kamal Dahal, chairman of the CPN (Maoist) party.[3]

He was finally elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in the 2017 legislative election.[5] He was elected from Siraha-3 constituency under the first-past-the-post system representing CPN UML of the left alliance. He defeated his nearest rival, Asheswor Yadav, by acquiring 23,227 votes to Yadav's 21,220.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ संघीय संसद सदस्य, २०७४ परिचयात्मक पुस्तिका [Federal Parliament Members 2017 Introduction Booklet] (PDF) (in Nepali). Nepal: Federal Parliament Secretariat. 2021. p. 270.
  2. ^ "Discussion for sake of discussion useless, say MPs". The Himalayan Times. 2019-01-01. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
  3. ^ a b c d "Siraha-5". election2013.ujyaaloonline.com. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
  4. ^ "NCP appoints 77 districts' incharge". The Himalayan Times. 2019-07-22. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
  5. ^ "62 new faces in parliament, just 2 women". Setopati. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
  6. ^ "Siraha : Province 2 – Nepal Election Latest Updates and Result for Federal Parliament". election.ekantipur.com. Retrieved 2019-08-27.


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