Honourable
Krishna Gopal Shrestha
कृष्ण गोपाल श्रेष्ठ
Minister of Education, Science and Technology
In office
25 December 2020 – 13 July 2021
PresidentBidya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterKP Oli
Preceded byGiriraj Mani Pokharel
Succeeded byDevendra Paudel
Minister of Forests and Environment
In office
24 June 2021 – 12 July 2021
PresidentBidya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterKP Oli
Preceded byNarad Muni Rana
Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Security
In office
24 June 2021 – 13 July 2021
PresidentBidya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterKP Oli
Preceded byBimal Prasad Shrivastav
Minister of Youth and Sports
In office
24 June 2021 – 13 July 2021
PresidentBidya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterKP Oli
Preceded byEkbal Miya
Minister of Health and Population
In office
24 June 2021 – 13 July 2021
PresidentBidya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterKP Oli
Preceded bySher Bahadur Tamang
Minister of Urban Development
In office
14 October 2020 – 25 December 2020
PresidentBidya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterKP Oli
State Minister for Local Development
In office
10 June 2004 – 2 February 2005
MonarchGyanendra Shah
Prime MinisterSher Bahadur Deuba
Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha
Assumed office
4 March 2018
Preceded byDhyan Govinda Ranjit
ConstituencyKathmandu 9
In office
October 1994 – May 1999
Preceded byConstituency created
Succeeded byTirtha Ram Dangol
ConstituencyKathmandu 9
In office
1992 – August 1994
Preceded byMadan Bhandari
Succeeded byRajendra Prasad Shrestha
ConstituencyKathmandu 5
Personal details
Born (1958-09-22) September 22, 1958
NationalityNepali
Political partyCPN (UML)
Other political
affiliations		CPN (ML)

Krishna Gopal Shrestha (Nepali: कृष्ण गोपाल श्रेष्ठ) is a Nepali communist politician and former minister of Nepal. He is a politician belonging to main opposition party of Nepal CPN(UML).

Political career

Shrestha joined politics in 1979 as a member of CPN ML, the predecessor of CPN UML.[1] He was arrested and imprisoned multiple times during the fight against the partyless Panchayat system.[1] He became the party's Kathmandu district secretary in 1982.[1] He became Bhaktapur district secretary in 1986, and Lalitpur district secretary in 1990.[1] After the formation of CPN UML, he had remained the party's central committee member from 1998 to 2018, when the party was merged with CPN (Maoist Centre).[1]

He was elected from Kathmandu-5 constituency in the by-election of 1992, after party secretary Madan Bhandari vacated the seat.[1] He won the 1994 legislative election from Kathmandu-7 constituency.[1] He was defeated in Kathmandu-9 in the 1999 election.

He was appointed the State Minister for Local Development in 2005.[1]

In the 2008 constituent assembly election, he contested from Kathmandu-9 again, but was defeated. In the 2013 election for the second constituent assembly, he was the CPN UML candidate in Kathmandu-9 constituency but lost again to his longtime rival Dhyan Govinda Ranjit of Nepali Congress.[1][2]

In the 2017 election, he was elected from Kathmandu-9 constituency representing CPN UML of the left alliance.[3]

Following the merger of CPN UML with CPN (Maoist Centre), he was appointed the deputy chief of the treasury and financial management department of the new party.[4]

Personal life

He was born on October 1, 1958, to Hari Lal and Hari Maya Shrestha in Kathmandu.[1] He has said that he came from a humble background, and was admitted directly to the fifth grade, having been self-taught up to that point.[1] He went on to achieve a Master's Degree in Economics.[1] He has two daughters.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "Krishna Gopal Shrestha". election2013.ujyaaloonline.com. Archived from the original on 2018-03-27. Retrieved 2019-08-23.
  2. ↑ "Dhyan Gobinda Ranjit". election2013.ujyaaloonline.com. Retrieved 2019-08-23.
  3. ↑ "Economic revolution under left alliance govt: Shrestha". Setopati. Retrieved 2019-08-23.
  4. ↑ "CPN finalizes department chiefs, Ishwore Pokharel to head school department". Setopati. Retrieved 2019-08-23.
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