Gyanendra Bahadur Karki ( Nepali:ज्ञानेन्द्र बहादुर कार्की) is a Nepali politician from

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. He is the current Minister for Information and Communications of Nepal. He was Finance Minister under

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. He has been elected as a House of Representative from constituency 4 of the

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district in

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Political life

Karki, who was born in Bhojpur in 1957 AD, entered party politics through the Nepal Students Union. Karki, became the president of the Nepal Student's Union in 2039 BS succeeding former

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and NC Vice-president

Bimalendra Nidhi Bimalendra Nidhi ( Maithili/ Nepali/Devanagari: बिमलेन्द्र निधि ) is a Nepali politician who serves as a member of the House of Representatives and a senior leader of Nepali Congress. He is the former Deputy Prime M ...

in the post. Karki was a confidant of

Krishna Prasad Bhattarai Krishna Prasad Bhattarai ( Nepali: कृष्णप्रसाद भट्टराई; 13 December 19244 March 2011) also known as Kishunji was a Nepalese political leader. He was one of the main leaders involved in transitioning Nepal from ...

. Karki, who was earlier in charge of the

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and

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, is now in charge of the

Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs ( bn, আইন, বিচার ও সংসদ বিষয়ক মন্ত্রণালয়; ''Ā'ina, bicāra ō sansada biṣaẏaka mantraṇālaẏa'') is a ministry of the govern ...

Electoral history

Gyanendra Bahadur Karki won the

2017 Nepalese General Election General elections were held in Nepal in two phases on 26 November and 7 December 2017 to elect the 275 members of the fifth House of Representatives, the lower house of the Federal Parliament of Nepal. The election was held alongside the first p ...

from Sunsari-4. Previously, he lost thrice from Bhojpur-1 and that too with few hundred votes which can be seen below. In 2013 Constituent Assembly election, Karki didn't contest the election and was made MP from Proportional list of

Election in the 2010s

2017 legislative elections

Election in the 2000s

2008 Constituent Assembly election

Election in the 1990s

1999 legislative elections

1994 legislative elections

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Karki, Gyanendra Bahadur Living people Nepali Congress politicians from Province No. 1 Finance ministers of Nepal Government ministers of Nepal 1957 births Nepal MPs 2017–2022 Members of the 2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly Nepali Congress (Democratic) politicians