Mahendra Bahadur Shahi ( ne, महेन्द्र बहादुर शाही) is a Nepalese politician and former

Chief Minister A chief minister is an elected or appointed head of government of – in most instances – a sub-national entity, for instance an administrative subdivision or federal constituent entity. Examples include a state (and sometimes a union terri ...

of Karnali, a province in western Nepal. He was member of the 1st Nepalese Constituent Assembly and as Minister of

Energy In physics, energy (from Ancient Greek: ἐνέργεια, ''enérgeia'', “activity”) is the quantitative property that is transferred to a body or to a physical system, recognizable in the performance of work and in the form of heat a ...

, Nepal. He was unanimously selected as the Parliamentary Party leader of the CPN (MC) for Karnali on 14 February 2018. He was appointed as the chief minister, according to Article 168 (1) of the

Constitution of Nepal Constitution of Nepal 2015 ( ne, नेपालको संविधान २०७२) is the present governing Constitution of Nepal. Nepal is governed according to the Constitution which came into effect on 20 September 2015, replacing the ...

and took the oath of his office and secrecy as a chief minister on 17 February 2018.

Early life

Mahendra Bahadur Shahi was born in

Nanikot Nanikot is a village development committee in Kalikot District in the Karnali Zone of north-western Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by the Nepal Central Bureau of Sta ...

(now Pachaljharana) Kalikot,

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...

to Laal Bahadur Shahi and Rankauda Shahi.

References

Living people Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) politicians 1977 births People from Kalikot District Chief Ministers of Nepalese provinces Members of the Provincial Assembly of Karnali Province Members of the 2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly Nepal MPs 2022–present {{Karnali-politician-stub