Amod Prasad Upadhyay आमोद प्रसाद उपाध्याय | |
Birth Date: | 29 March 1936 |
Birth Place: | Biratnagar, Nepal |
Residence: | Biratnagar, Nepal |
Nationality: | Nepalese |
Office: | Member of Nepali Congress Central Working Committee (CWC) |
Term Start: | Sep 21,2010 |
Term End: | Mar 2016 |
Office1: | Member of Constituent Assembly of Nepal from Morang-1 |
Term Start1: | May 27, 2008 |
Term End1: | May 28, 2012 |
Successor1: | Rishikesh Pokharel |
Office2: | Member of Interim legislature of Nepal |
Term Start2: | January 15, 2007 |
Term End2: | May 26, 2008 |
Office3: | Minister of Education and Sports |
Primeminister3: | Girija Prasad Koirala, Sher Bahadur Deuba |
Term Start3: | March 22, 2000 |
Term End3: | May 23, 2002 |
Office4: | Member of Pratinidhi Sabha from Morang-1 |
Term Start4: | May 1999 |
Term End4: | May 23, 2002 |
Predecessor4: | Girija Prasad Koirala |
Office5: | Member of Rashtriya Sabha |
Term Start5: | 1 June 1991 |
Term End5: | 11 January 2005 |
Alma Mater: | Banaras Hindu University |
Spouse: | Gunu Upadhyay |
Children: | Rajib Upadhyay, Sanjib Upadhyay, Ramita Upadhyay |
Profession: | Social worker |
Party: | Nepali Congress |
Amod Prasad Upadhyay (Nepali: आमोद प्रसाद उपाध्याय; born March 29, 1936) is a Nepalese social worker and politician.[1]
Upadhyay was born in Biratnagar to Janak Prasad Upadhyay and Chandrakumari Upadhyay.[1] He studied at Adarsha Vidyala in Biratnagar and completed his higher secondary education from Benaras, India. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Banaras Hindu University.
Upadhyay joined politics in 1956 as a Nepali Congress activist. An active member of the outlawed political opposition from 1960 to 1990, he was arrested and imprisoned several times by the Panchayat regime for his pro-democracy activities. He spent a total of 16 months under arrest.[1]
He participated in the 1990 People's Movement and served in the Rashtriya Sabha from 1991 to 1995 as a nominated member. He contested and won the 1999 by-elections for the Pratinidhi Sabha from the Morang-1 seat vacated by Girija Prasad Koirala. Upadhyay was Nepal's Minister for Education and Sports from March 2000 to May 2002 in the cabinets of Girija Prasad Koirala and Sher Bahadur Deuba.[2]
Upadhyay protested the royal takeover of Feb 1, 2005 and was held in detention for several weeks by the government of King Gyanendra citing the Public Security Act (PSA).[3] Following the 2006 democracy movement and the reinstatement of the Pratinidhi Sabha, he served as the Chief Whip of the Nepali Congress Parliamentary Party in the reinstated house and the interim-parliament. In May 2008, he was elected to the Constituent Assembly of Nepal from Morang-1 and was a member of the Judicial System and Security Special committees.[4]
The party's general convention in 2010 elected Upadhyay to the party's Central Working Committee (CWC) from Koshi Zone.[5] He was picked by the CWC to head the Disciplinary Committee of the party on August 15, 2012.[6]
Upadhyay was the Nepali Congress candidate for the 2013 constituent assembly elections from the Morang-1 constituency [7] losing to Rishikesh Pokhrel of the Communist Party of Nepal (UML).
1999 Pratinidhi Sabha Elections Morang-1 [8]
Party | Candidate | Votes | Status | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Amod Prasad Upadhyay | 26,501 | Elected | ||
Ram Kumar Rai | 12,601 |
2008 Constituent Assembly Election Morang-1 [9] [10]
Upadhyay was the only Nepali Congress candidate elected from the nine seats contested by the party in Morang district in this election.[11]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Status | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Amod Prasad Upadhyay | 11,105 | 24.30 | Elected | ||
Ganga Devi Dangi | 8,799 | 19.26 | |||
M.P.R.F - Nepal | Tulu Ram Rajbansi | 7,710 | 16.87 | ||
CPN (Maoist) | Shanta Maya Rai | 6,945 | 15.20 | ||
Nepal Sadbhawana Party | Abdul Rahim Miya | 6,165 | 13.49 | ||
CPN (ML) | Tusli Prasad Siwakoti | 1,422 | 3.11 | ||
Rastriya Prajatantra Party | Ratna Rai | 1,036 | 2.27 | ||
Others | 2,515 | 5.50 | |||
Total | 45,697 | 100 |
2013 Constituent Assembly Election Morang-1 [12]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Status | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rishikesh Pokharel | 14,000 | 34.17 | Elected | ||
Amod Prasad Upadhyay | 10,940 | 26.70 | |||
UCPN (Maoist) | Ganesh Uprety | 6,501 | 15.87 | ||
M.P.R.F - Nepal | Binod Kumar Singh Gangain | 3,359 | 8.19 | ||
M.P.R.F - Loktantrik | Mohammad Mahtab Alam | 2,048 | 5.00 | ||
Nepal Sadbhawana Party | Abdul Rahim Miya | 1,295 | 3.16 | ||
Others | 2,832 | 6.91 | |||
Total | 40,975 | 100 |