| Narayan Prakash Saud | |
| Native Name Lang: | नेपाली |
| Office1: | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| Term Start1: | 16 April 2023 |
| Term End1: | 4 March 2024 |
| President1: | Ram Chandra Paudel |
| Primeminister1: | Pushpa Kamal Dahal |
| Predecessor1: | Bimala Rai Paudyal |
| Successor1: | Narayan Kaji Shrestha |
| Office2: | Minister of Irrigation |
| Term Start2: | 25 February 2014 |
| Term End2: | 11 October 2015 |
| President2: | Ram Baran Yadav |
| Primeminister2: | Sushil Koirala |
| Predecessor2: | Umakant Jha |
| Successor2: | Umesh Kumar Yadav |
| Office3: | Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha |
| Term Start3: | 22 December 2022 |
| Predecessor3: | Nar Bahadur Dhami |
| Constituency3: | Kanchanpur 2 |
| Term Start4: | May 1999 |
| Term End4: | May 2002 |
| Predecessor4: | Ram Kumar Gyawali |
| Constituency4: | Kanchanpur 1 |
| Office5: | Member of the Constituent Assembly / Legislature Parliament |
| Term Start5: | 21 January 2014 |
| Term End5: | 14 October 2017 |
| Predecessor5: | Devi Lal Chaudhary |
| Constituency5: | Kanchanpur 2 |
| Birth Date: | 9 August 1962 |
| Birth Place: | Dadeldhura, Nepal |
| Nationality: | Nepali |
| Party: | Nepali Congress |
| Spouse: | Jyotshna Saud |
| Honorific Prefix: | The Honourable |
Narayan Prakash Saud (Nepali: नारायण प्रकाश साउद, commonly known as NP Saud) is a Nepali politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from April 2023 to March 2024.[1] A central member of Nepali Congress, Saud previously served as the Minister of Irrigation from 25 February 2014 to 11 October 2015 in Sushil Koirala's cabinet.[2] [3] [4] [5] He is a member of the Pratinidhi Sabha from Kanchanpur 2, having won the seat in the 2022 general election.[6]
First elelcted to the Pratinidhi Sabha from Kanchanpur 1 in the 1999 general election, Saud served as the Minister of State for Education and Sports from 1999 to 2001. He opted to switch seat to Kanchapur 2 in the 2008 Constituent Assembly election, but was defeated by CPN (Maoist)'s Devi Lal Chaudhary.[7] [8] He was elected from Kanchanpur 2 in the 2013 CA election, but was again defeated in the 2017 general election.[9] Saud won the seat back in 2022, defeating the sitting member, Nar Bahadur Dhami of CPN (UML).