Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
Urmila Aryal | |
Native Name: | उर्मिला अर्याल |
Office: | Vice Chairperson of the National Assembly of Nepal |
Term Start: | 6 February 2023 |
President: | Bidhya Devi Bhandari Ram Chandra Poudel |
Primeminister: | Pushpa Kamal Dahal |
1Blankname: | Chairman |
1Namedata: | Ganesh Prasad Timilsina |
Predecessor: | Shashikala Dahal |
Office1: | Member of the National Assembly |
Termstart1: | 4 March 2022 |
Predecessor1: | Shashikala Dahal |
Constituency1: | Madhesh Province |
Party: | Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) |
Otherparty: | Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) |
Nationality: | Nepali |
Urmila Aryal (Nepali: उर्मिला अर्याल) is a Nepalese politician. She is a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre).
Aryal came second in the Parsa-4 seat in the 1994 legislative election with 9288 votes, losing to Nepali Congress candidate Ramesh Rijal. In 1999 legislative election she defeated Rijal, winning the seat with 17095 votes.[1]
In May 2006, she was named Minister for Women, Children and Social Welfare.[2]
Aryal is currently the number four candidate of CPN(UML) in the proportional representation list for the Constituent Assembly election.[3]
She left CPN-UML to join UCPN-(Maoist) and contested the 2013 Constituent Assembly election from Parsa-5. She lost to Jaya Prakash Tharu of CPN-UML election by coming third with 7340 votes.[4]
She was born in Parsa District, Province No. 2, Nepal.[5]