Khin Maung Oo ( my, ခင်မောင်ဦး; also known as Bu Reh) was the Chief Minister of Kayah State,

Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...

. He served as Chief Minister of Kayah State from 2011 to 2016 and August 2021 to January 2022 under Thein Sein and PM Min Aung Hlaing. He was appointed as the Chairman of Kayah State Administration Council, sub-council of State Administered Council, from February 2021 to 1 August 2021. A member of the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), he was elected to represent

Bawlakhe Township Bawlakhe Township ( my, ဘော်လခဲမြို့နယ်) is a township of Bawlakhe District in the eastern part of Kayah State in Myanmar. The capital town is Bawlakhe Bawlakhe ( my, ဘော်လခဲမြို့) is a to ...

Constituency No. 1 as a Kayah State Hluttaw representative in the

2010 Burmese general election General elections were held in Myanmar on 2010, in accordance with the new constitution, which was approved in a referendum held in . The election date was announced by the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) on . The elections were the ...

. On 28 June 2015, he resigned from the USDP, along with the Kayah State ministers for transportation, electric power, industry, and Bamar ethnic affairs. On 13 July 2015, the USDP released a statement that Khin Maung Oo had in fact been sacked for "disturbing party unity" and violating the party's policy for the

2015 Burmese general election General elections were held in Myanmar on 8 November 2015, with the National League for Democracy winning a supermajority of seats in the combined national parliament. Voting occurred in all constituencies, excluding seats appointed by the Tatm ...

. The conflict was related to disagreements with the national headquarters of USDP regarding the permission for 2 government ministers, Aung Min and

Soe Thein Soe Thein ( my, စိုးသိန်း; born 7 September 1949 in Rangoon, Burma), also spelt Soe Thane, served as Minister of the President's Office of Myanmar (Burma) between 2011 and 2016 and a former Minister for Industry-2 of Myanmar (Bu ...

, to contest 'safe seats' in Kayah State for the elections. The seats they had contested in the

were now occupied by members of the National League for Democracy and were considered more challenging to win. Khin Maung Oo's father, Kyaw Din, was a former chairman of the Karenni State People's Council during the socialist era.

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