Honorific Prefix: | Honourable |
Dilendra Prasad Badu | |
Honorific Suffix: | MP |
Native Name: | दिलेन्द्र प्रसाद बडू |
Native Name Lang: | nep |
Office: | Minister of Industry, Commerce and Supplies |
Term Start: | 8 October 2021 |
Term End: | 26 December 2022 |
President: | Bidhya Devi Bhandari |
Primeminister: | Sher Bahadur Deuba |
Predecessor: | Sher Bahadur Deuba |
Successor: | Damodar Bhandari |
Party: | Nepali Congress |
Office4: | Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha for Nepali Congress party list |
Term Start4: | 4 March 2018 |
Term End4: | 18 September 2022 |
Office1: | Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha |
Term Start1: | 22 December 2022 |
Predecessor1: | Ganesh Singh Thagunna |
Constituency3: | Darchula 1 |
Term Start2: | May 1999 |
Term End2: | May 2002 |
Predecessor2: | Prem Singh Dhami |
Successor2: | Laxman Dutta Joshi |
Term Start3: | May 1991 |
Term End3: | August 1994 |
Predecessor3: | Constituency established |
Successor3: | Prem Singh Dhami |
Birth Date: | 9 January 1954[1] |
Birth Place: | Darchula District |
Nationality: | Nepali |
Spouse: | Madhavi Badu |
Children: | 3 |
Father: | Nandi Badu |
Mother: | Kalasha Devi Badu |
Dilendra Prasad Badu is a Nepalese politician who has served as the Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs of Nepal since 2021. Elected through a proportional election system, he is currently serving as a Member of Parliament in the Nepali House of Representatives from Darchula and he is currently in its Parliamentary Committee for State Affairs and Good Governance.[2] He was previously elected to the Pratinidhi Sabha in the 1999 election on behalf of the Nepali Congress.[3]
D. P. Badu has been a member of the central working committee for Nepali Congress since 2003, having been appointed for 2 tenure and elected for another 2 tenures. He also served as spokesperson of the party from 2010 to 2016. He has been Member of Parliament four times and minister thrice so far.
He started active politics in 1989, as a secretary of Nepali Congress, District Committee, Darchula. Before coming into active politics, he worked as a teacher in secondary school of Darchula (1977-1979), and as a faculty member and campus chief for Mahendra Multiple Campus, Nepalgunj, Banke, Tribhuvan University (1981-1990).
In the 2022 Nepalese general election, he was elected as the member of the 2nd Federal Parliament of Nepal.[4]