Dilendra Prasad Badu

Honourable
Dilendra Prasad Badu
MP
दिलेन्द्र प्रसाद बडू
Minister of Industry, Commerce and Supplies
In office
8 October 2021 – 26 December 2022
PresidentBidhya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterSher Bahadur Deuba
Preceded bySher Bahadur Deuba
as Prime Minister
Succeeded byDamodar Bhandari
Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office
22 December 2022
Preceded byGanesh Singh Thagunna
In office
May 1999 – May 2002
Preceded byPrem Singh Dhami
Succeeded byLaxman Dutta Joshi
In office
May 1991 – August 1994
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded byPrem Singh Dhami
ConstituencyDarchula 1
Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha for
Nepali Congress party list
In office
4 March 2018 – 18 September 2022
Personal details
Born (1954-01-09) 9 January 1954 (age 70)[1]
Darchula District
NationalityNepali
Political partyNepali Congress
SpouseMadhavi Badu
Children3
Parents
  • Nandi Badu (father)
  • Kalasha Devi Badu (mother)
WebsiteOfficial website

Dilendra Prasad Badu is a Nepalese politician who has served as the Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs of Nepal since 2021. Elected through a proportional election system, he is currently serving as a Member of Parliament in the Nepali House of Representatives from Darchula and he is currently in its Parliamentary Committee for State Affairs and Good Governance.[2] He was previously elected to the Pratinidhi Sabha in the 1999 election on behalf of the Nepali Congress.[3]

D. P. Badu has been a member of the central working committee for Nepali Congress since 2003, having been appointed for 2 tenure and elected for another 2 tenures. He also served as spokesperson of the party from 2010 to 2016. He has been Member of Parliament four times and minister thrice so far.

He started active politics in 1989, as a secretary of Nepali Congress, District Committee, Darchula. Before coming into active politics, he worked as a teacher in secondary school of Darchula (1977-1979), and as a faculty member and campus chief for Mahendra Multiple Campus, Nepalgunj, Banke, Tribhuvan University (1981-1990).

In the 2022 Nepalese general election, he was elected as the member of the 2nd Federal Parliament of Nepal.[4]

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. ^ House of Representative, Nepal
  3. ^ Election Commission of Nepal Archived October 12, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Republica. "Results of 165 HoR seats declared, NC wins highest 57". My Republica. Retrieved 28 December 2022.


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