| Padma Kumari Aryal | |
| Native Name: | पद्मा कुमारी अर्याल |
| Office: | Minister of Agriculture and Livestock Development |
| Termend: | 25 December 2020 |
| Termstart: | 3 August 2018 |
| Primeminister: | KP Oli |
| President: | Bidya Devi Bhandari |
| Predecessor: | Ghanashyam Bhusal |
| Successor: | Shiva Maya Tumbahamphe |
| Office1: | Minister of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation |
| Termstart1: | 3 August 2018 |
| Termend1: | 25 December 2020 |
| Primeminister1: | KP Oli |
| President1: | Bidhya Devi Bhandari |
| Office2: | State Minister of Health and Population |
| Term Start2: | 16 March 2018 |
| Term End2: | 3 August 2018 |
| President2: | Bidya Devi Bhandari |
| Primeminister2: | KP Oli |
| Office4: | Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha |
| Term Start4: | 4 March 2018 |
| Term End4: | 18 September 2022 |
| Constituency4: | Syangja 2 |
| Predecessor4: | Kamal Prasad Pangeni |
| Office5: | Member of Constituent Assembly for CPN (UML) party list |
| Term Start5: | 28 May 2008 |
| Term End5: | 28 May 2012 |
| Party: | CPN (UML) |
| Birth Date: | 1 January 1969[1] |
| Nationality: | Nepalese |
Padma Kumari Aryal is a Nepali communist politician, a former member of the House of Representatives,[2] former cabinet minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation and current Minister of Agriculture and Livestock Development.[3] [4] She was also previously the Minister of State for Health and Population.[5]
As of 2017, she was the central committee member of CPN UML and district chairperson of Syangja district for the party.
In the federal legislative election of 2017, she was the CPN UML candidate for Syangja-2 constituency under the first-past-the-post system.[6] She won the election, defeating her nearest rival Gopal Man Shrestha of Nepali Congress by more than 3,500 votes. She received 35,142 votes to Shrestha's 31,436.[7] She was one of only eight women elected to parliament by a direct vote of the people in the 2017 election.[6]
Aryal has four brothers and three sisters. Her mother died in October 2018.[8]