Ganesh Singh Thagunna
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Ganesh Singh Thagunna | |
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| गणेश सिंह ठगुन्ना | |
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| Minister of Federal Affairs and General Administration of Nepal | |
| In office 25 December 2020 – 4 June 2021 | |
| President | Bidya Devi Bhandari |
| Prime Minister | K. P. Sharma Oli |
| Preceded by | Hridayesh Tripathi |
| Succeeded by | Ganesh Kumar Pahadi |
| Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha | |
| Assuming office TBD | |
| Succeeding | Dilendra Prasad Badu |
| Constituency | Darchula 1 |
| In office 4 March 2018 – 18 September 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Himself as (MCA) |
| Succeeded by | Dilendra Prasad Badu |
| Constituency | Darchula 1 |
| Member of the Constituent Assembly | |
| In office 21 January 2014 – 14 October 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Laxman Dutta Joshi |
| Succeeded by | Himself as (MP) |
| Constituency | Darchula 1 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 December 1968 |
| Party | CPN UML |
| Children | 3 |
Honorable Ganesh Singh Thagunna(Elected From Darchula 2026 MP )(born 7 December 1968)[1] is a Nepali politician and former Minister of Federal Affairs and General Administration .He is a member of the House of Representatives of the federal parliament of Nepal.[2] Previously, he was also elected to the 2nd constituent assembly in 2013.[1] He is a long time member of CPN UML.[1] He is from Darchula District,[1] where he won both the 2013[1] and 2017 elections from Darchula 1 (constituency).
Thagunna started his political career, joining CPN UML in 1990.[1] He served as Darchula district secretary for the party three times.[1] He also became a member of the Mahakali zone coordination committee of the party.[1] Following the formation of Nepal Communist Party (NCP) in 2018, he became the district incharge of Darchula for the party.[3]
In the local level elections of 1997, he was elected the chairperson of Darchula District Development Committee.[citation needed]
In the 2013 elections to the 2nd constituent assembly, he was elected from Darchula constituency under the first-past-the-post system.[1]
In the 2017 parliamentary elections, he again won from Darchula constituency under the first-past-the-post system, defeating his nearest rival, Bikram Singh Dhami of Nepali Congress. He received 28,998 votes to Dhami's 22,233.[4] Following his election, he is also serving as the member of the State Direction Principle, Rules and Responsibility Committee[5] as well as the Women and Social Welfare Committee of parliament.[6][7] He is also a member of Constitution Implementation and Monitoring Committee, the joint parliamentary committee.[8]
