Birendra Kumar Kanodia
बिरेन्द्र कुमार कनोडिया
Province Assembly Member of Lumbini Province
Assumed office
2017
Preceded byConstituency Created
ConstituencyKapilvastu 3(B)
Assistant Minister for Water Resources
In office
2001–2002
MonarchGyanendra of Nepal
Prime MinisterSher Bahadur Deuba
Member of House of Representatives
In office
1999–2002
ConstituencyKapilvastu 3
Personal details
BornKapilvastu, Lumbini Province, Nepal
Political partyNepali Congress

Birendra Kumar Kanodia is a Nepalese politician and member of the Lumbini Provincial Assembly.[1] He was elected as parliamentary party leader. He is the current leader of the opposition of Lumbini Province.[2]

Political career

He was elected to the Pratinidhi Sabha in the 1999 election on behalf of the Nepali Congress.[3] In 2001 he was appointed as Assistant Minister for Water Resources in Sher Bahadur Deuba's expanded cabinet.[4] Recently he was elected in a provincial election as a MLA from Kapilvastu constituency 3 sub-constituency 2.[2]

Electoral history

2017 Nepalese provincial elections

Kapilvastu 3 (B)
Party Candidate Votes
Nepali Congress Birendra Kumar Kanudiya 6,679
CPN (Maoist Centre) Javed Alam Khan 6,307
Independent Janaki Prasad Yadav 5,157
Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal Shailesh Pratap Shah 3,317
Rastriya Janata Party Nepal Ram Prakash Kurmi 3,172
Bahujan Shakti Party Gauri Shankar Harijan 1,970
Others 1,727
Invalid votes 2,637
Result Congress gain
Source: Election Commission

1999 legislative elections

Kapilvastu 3
Party Candidate Votes
Nepali Congress Birendra Kumar Kanudiya 12,261
Independent Surendra Raj Acharya 8,759
Rastriya Prajatantra Party (Chand) Hari Narayan Rajauriya 7,927
Rastriya Prajatantra Party Akbal Ahmed Sah 6,418
CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Bal Ram Adhikari 5,663
Nepal Sadbhavana Party Amrita Devi Agrahari 2,891
Others 1,342
Invalid votes 1,384
Result Congress hold
Source: Election Commission[5][6]

References

  1. "Nepali Congress". nepalicongress.org. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  2. 1 2 "प्रदेश सभा - लुम्बिनी प्रदेश". pradeshsabha.p5.gov.np. Archived from the original on 2021-06-05. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  3. Election Commission of Nepal Archived October 12, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  4. http://www.fesnepal.org/reports/2001/political_report01.htm Archived 2007-07-05 at the Wayback Machine FES
  5. "Finalised Constituencies With Top Two Candidates". 2008-01-24. Archived from the original on 2008-01-24. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
  6. "Election Results'99". nepalresearch.org. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
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