Minister of Home Affairs (Nepal)

Minister of Home Affairs
गृहमन्त्रालय
Emblem of Nepal
Flag of Nepal
Incumbent
Ramesh Lekhak
since 15 July 2024
StyleHis Excellency
Member ofCouncil of Ministers
Reports toPrime Minister
SeatGorkha, Nepal
NominatorPrime Minister
AppointerThe President
Term lengthNo fixed term
Inaugural holderB. P. Koirala
Formation21 February 1951; 73 years ago (21 February 1951)

The Minister of Home Affairs (or simply, the Home Minister; Nepali: गृहमन्त्री) is the head of the Ministry of Home Affairs of the Government of Nepal. One of the senior-most officers in the Federal Cabinet, the chief responsibility of the Home Minister is the maintenance of Nepal's internal security; the country's large police force comes under its jurisdiction. Occasionally, they are assisted by the Minister of State of Home Affairs and the lower-ranked Deputy Minister of Home Affairs.[1][2]

List of Ministers of Home Affairs

This is a list of former Ministers of Home Affairs since Nepal was declared Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal:

Name Party Assumed office Left office Tenure in days
1 Bam Dev Gautam[3] Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) 18 August 2008 25 May 2009 280 days
2 Bhim Bahadur Rawal Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) 23 May 2009 6 February 2011
3 Krishna Bahadur Mahara Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) 6 February 2011 29 August 2011
4 Bijay Kumar Gachhadar Madhesi Jana Adhikar Forum (Loktantrik) 4 September 2011 14 March 2013
5 Madhav Ghimire Chief secretary (Independent) 14 March 2013 11 February 2014
6 Bam Dev Gautam Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) 25 February 2014 12 October 2015
7 Shakti Bahadur Basnet[4] Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) 19 October 2015 4 August 2016 290 days
8 Bimalendra Nidhi[5] Nepali Congress 4 August 2016[6] 7 June 2017[7] 307 days
9 Janardhan Sharma[8] Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) 7 June 2017 17 October 2017 132 days
10 Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba[9] Nepali Congress 17 October 2017 15 February 2018 121 days
11 Ram Bahadur Thapa Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) until 17 May 2018

Nepal Communist Party from 17 May 2018

26 February 2018 20 May 2021 3 years, 94 days
12 Khagaraj Adhikari CPN(UML) 10 June 2021 22 June 2021 12 days
13 Bishnu Prasad Paudel CPN(UML) 24 June 2021 13 July 2021 19 days
14 Bal Krishna Khand Nepali Congress 13 July 2021 26 December 2022 1 year, 166 days
15 Rabi Lamichhane Rastriya Swatantra Party 26 December 2022 27 January 2023 32 days
16 Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) 27 January 2023 31 March 2023 63 days
17 Narayan Kaji Shrestha Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) 31 March 2023 Incumbent 1 year, 246 days

Reference

  1. ↑ "गृह मन्त्रालय". moha.gov.np (in Nepali). Retrieved 2022-01-29.
  2. ↑ "Council of Ministers | Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers". Retrieved 2022-01-29.
  3. ↑ "Meet the new cabinet of ministers". Nepali Times. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
  4. ↑ "Nepal's Prime Minister KP Oli Expands Cabinet, Inducts 9 New Ministers". NDTV. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  5. ↑ "13 new ministers take oath from President". The Himalayan Times. 26 August 2016. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
  6. ↑ "Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda sworn in as new Nepal PM". Hindustan Times. 2016-08-04. Retrieved 2021-07-28.
  7. ↑ "Rt. Honorable President Assigns Honorable Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Home Affairs Mr Bimalendra Nidhi as Acting Prime Minister". Office of the President of Nepal. 2016-10-15. Retrieved 2021-07-28.
  8. ↑ "Sher Bahadur Deuba sworn-in as Nepal's 40th prime minister". Xinhua. Archived from the original on March 30, 2019. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
  9. ↑ "Council of Ministers". Government of Nepal. Retrieved 1 November 2017.

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