Honorific-Prefix: | Honourable |
Minendra Rijal | |
Native Name: | मिनेन्द्र रिजाल |
Office: | Defence Minister of Nepal |
Term Start: | 8 October 2021 |
Term End: | 16 December 2021[1] |
President: | Bidhya Devi Bhandari |
Primeminister: | Sher Bahadur Deuba |
Predecessor: | Ishwor Pokhrel |
Successor: | Sher Bahadur Deuba |
Office1: | Minister of Information and Communications |
Term Start1: | 25 February 2014 |
Term End1: | 12 October 2015 |
President1: | Ram Baran Yadav |
Primeminister1: | Sushil Koirala |
Successor1: | Sher Dhan Rai |
Office2: | Minister for Constituent Assembly, Parliamentary Affairs and Culture |
Term Start2: | 25 May 2009 |
Term End2: | 6 February 2011 |
President2: | Ram Baran Yadav |
Primeminister2: | Madhav Kumar Nepal |
Office3: | Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha |
Term Start3: | 4 March 2018 |
Constituency3: | Morang 2 |
Predecessor3: | Chandi Prasad Rai |
Office4: | Member of Constituent Assembly for Nepali Congress party list |
Term Start4: | 21 January 2014 |
Term End4: | 14 October 2017 |
Birth Date: | 1 October 1957[2] |
Birth Place: | Dharan, Sunsari |
Party: | Nepali Congress |
Spouse: | Durga Rijal |
Alma Mater: | New York University |
Minendra Rijal (Nepali: मिनेन्द्र रिजाल) is a Nepali politician and former Defence Minister of Nepal. He is also member of the House of Representatives.
He is a former member of Nepali Congress party Central Working Committee.[3] He served as Minister of Information and Communications during the prime minister-ship of the Sushil Koirala.
Recently, Rijal resigned as Defence minister after he was unable to win internal election of party for general secretary.[4]
He was elected to parliament from Morang-2 in the 2017 elections. Morang-2 is the constituency from where Late PM Girija Prasad Koirala used to contest the election.[5] [6]
He was also one of the architects of the mixed electoral system that ensured better social and gender diversity in the Constituent Assembly.[3]
Party | Candidate | Votes | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Nepali Congress | Minendra Prasad Rijal | 35,819 | ||
CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) | Rishikesh Pokharel | 34,014 | ||
Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal | Yuvraj Karki | 2,595 | ||
Rastriya Janata Party Nepal | Mahendra Lal Das Kevrat | 2,082 | ||
Others | 1,279 | |||
Invalid votes | 4,460 | |||
Result | Congress gain | |||
Source: Election Commission |