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Padma Kumari Aryal
Nepali politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Padma Kumari Aryal is a Nepali communist politician, a former member of the House of Representatives,[2] former cabinet minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation and current Minister of Agriculture and Livestock Development.[3][4] She was also previously the Minister of State for Health and Population.[5]
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CPN UML career
As of 2017, she was the central committee member of CPN UML and district chairperson of Syangja district for the party.[6]
2017 legislative election
In the federal legislative election of 2017, she was the CPN UML candidate for Syangja-2 constituency under the first-past-the-post system.[6] She won the election, defeating her nearest rival Gopal Man Shrestha of Nepali Congress by more than 3,500 votes. She received 35,142 votes to Shrestha's 31,436.[7] She was one of only eight women elected to parliament by a direct vote of the people in the 2017 election.[6]
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Personal life
Aryal has four brothers and three sisters. Her mother died in October 2018.[8]
References
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