Padma Kumari Aryal
Nepali politician
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Padma Kumari Aryal is a Nepali communist politician, a former member of the House of Representatives,[2] former cabinet minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation and current Minister of Agriculture and Livestock Development.[3][4] She was also previously the Minister of State for Health and Population.[5]
Padma Kumari Aryal | |
|---|---|
| पद्मा कुमारी अर्याल | |
| Minister of Agriculture and Livestock Development | |
| In office 3 August 2018 – 25 December 2020 | |
| President | Bidya Devi Bhandari |
| Prime Minister | KP Oli |
| Preceded by | Ghanashyam Bhusal |
| Succeeded by | Shiva Maya Tumbahamphe |
| Minister of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation | |
| In office 3 August 2018 – 25 December 2020 | |
| President | Bidhya Devi Bhandari |
| Prime Minister | KP Oli |
| State Minister of Health and Population | |
| In office 16 March 2018 – 3 August 2018 | |
| President | Bidya Devi Bhandari |
| Prime Minister | KP Oli |
| Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha | |
| In office 4 March 2018 – 18 September 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Kamal Prasad Pangeni |
| Constituency | Syangja 2 |
| Member of Constituent Assembly for CPN (UML) party list | |
| In office 28 May 2008 – 28 May 2012 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 January 1969[1] |
| Party | CPN (UML) |
| Website | padmaaryal |
CPN UML career
2017 legislative election
In the federal legislative election of 2017, she was the CPN UML candidate for Syangja-2 constituency under the first-past-the-post system.[6] She won the election, defeating her nearest rival Gopal Man Shrestha of Nepali Congress by more than 3,500 votes. She received 35,142 votes to Shrestha's 31,436.[7] She was one of only eight women elected to parliament by a direct vote of the people in the 2017 election.[6]
Personal life
Aryal has four brothers and three sisters. Her mother died in October 2018.[8]
