| Birendra Kumar Kanodia | |
| Native Name: | बिरेन्द्र कुमार कनोडिया |
| Office2: | Assistant Minister for Water Resources |
| Termstart2: | 2001 |
| Termend2: | 2002 |
| Term Start: | 2017 |
| Predecessor: | Constituency Created |
| Term Start4: | 1999 |
| Term End4: | 2002 |
| Birth Place: | Kapilvastu, Lumbini Province, Nepal |
| Nationality: | Nepalese |
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.
He was elected to the Pratinidhi Sabha in the 1999 election on behalf of the Nepali Congress.[2] In 2001 he was appointed as Assistant Minister for Water Resources in Sher Bahadur Deuba's expanded cabinet.[3] Recently he was elected in a provincial election as a MLA from Kapilvastu constituency 3 sub-constituency 2.[4]
| 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 | ||||
| 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] | ||||