Krishna Gopal Shrestha ( ne, कृष्ण गोपाल श्रेष्ठ) is a Nepali communist politician and former minister of Nepal. He is a politician belonging to main opposition party of Nepal CPN(UML).

Political career

Shrestha joined politics in 1979 as a member of CPN ML, the predecessor of

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. He was arrested and imprisoned multiple times during the fight against the partyless

Panchayat system Panchayat ( ne, पञ्चायत) was a partyless political system incepted by King Mahendra by sidelining the Nepali Congress government of B. P. Koirala on 15 December 1960 AD (1st Poush 2017 BS). He introduced the partyless Panchayat sys ...

. He became the party's Kathmandu district secretary in 1982. He became Bhaktapur district secretary in 1986, and Lalitpur district secretary in 1990. After the formation of CPN UML, he had remained the party's central committee member from 1998 to 2018, when the party was merged with

CPN (Maoist Centre) The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) (), abbreviated CPN (Maoist Centre), CPN-Maoist Centre, CPN Maoist Centre, or CPN (MC), is the third largest political party in Nepal. It was founded in 1994 after breaking away from the Communist P ...

. He was elected from

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-5 constituency in the by-election of 1992, after party secretary

Madan Bhandari Nepal Ratna Man Padavi Madan Kumar Bhandari ( ne, मदन कुमार भण्डारी) (27 June 1951K.C., Surendra. ''Aitihasik dastavej sangroh - bhag 2''. Kathmandu: Pairavi Prakashan, 2063 B.S.. p 464. – 17 May 1993), common ...

vacated the seat. He won the 1994 legislative election from Kathmandu-7 constituency. He was defeated in Kathmandu-9 in the 1999 election. He was appointed the State Minister for Local Development in 2005. In the 2008 constituent assembly election, he contested from Kathmandu-9 again, but was defeated. In the 2013 election for the second constituent assembly, he was the CPN UML candidate in Kathmandu-9 constituency but lost again to his longtime rival Dhyan Govinda Ranjit of

Nepali Congress The Nepali Congress ( ne, नेपाली कांग्रेस ; abbr. NC) is the largest social democratic political party in Nepal. As per the results of recent local election, ''Nepali Congress'' stands as the single largest party o ...

. In the 2017 election, he was elected from

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-9 constituency representing

of the left alliance. Following the merger of CPN UML with

, he was appointed the deputy chief of the treasury and financial management department of the new party.

Personal life

He was born on October 1, 1958, to Hari Lal and Hari Maya Shrestha in Kathmandu. He has said that he came from a humble background, and was admitted directly to the fifth grade, having been self-taught up to that point. He went on to achieve a Master's Degree in Economics. He has two daughters.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shrestha, Krishna Gopal Living people Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist–Leninist) politicians Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) politicians Nepal Communist Party (NCP) politicians Government ministers of Nepal Newar 1958 births Nepal MPs 2017–2022 Nepal MPs 1991–1994 Nepal MPs 1994–1999 Education ministers of Nepal Nepal MPs 2022–present