Pampha Bhusal () is a Nepali politician. She has served as an elected member of parliament and the

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as well as a minister several times. She was the second woman to lead a political party in Nepal after

Sahana Pradhan Sahana Pradhan (Nepali: साहाना प्रधान) (17 June 1927 – 22 September 2014) was a Nepalese politician from a Newar family in Kathmandu. She resigned as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nepal on April 16, 2008. She also served ...

; she was the leader of the United Peoples’ Front (Samyukta Janamorcha) . On 13 July 2021 she became Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation in the newly formed cabinet under Prime Minister

Sher Bahadur Deuba Sher Bahadur Deuba (, ; born 13 June 1946, Ashigram, Kingdom of Nepal) is a Nepali politician and former prime minister of Nepal. He has also been serving as the president of the Nepali Congress since 2016. Deuba has served five terms as prime ...

Early life and career

Bhusal was born in Kimdada, a remote village in

Arghakhanchi Arghakhanchi ( ) is one of the districts of Lumbini Province in Nepal. The district headquarter is Sandhikharka. The district covers an area of and has a population (2011) of 197,632. Its neighboring districts are Palpa District, Palpa in the ea ...

. She entered student politics in 1977 when she was studying in the eighth grade, and four years later, in 1981, she took active membership of the Communist Party of Nepal.

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