Honorific-Prefix: | Honourable |
Krishna Gopal Shrestha | |
Native Name: | कृष्ण गोपाल श्रेष्ठ |
Office: | Minister of Education, Science and Technology |
Term Start: | 25 December 2020 |
Term End: | 13 July 2021 |
President: | Bidya Devi Bhandari |
Primeminister: | KP Oli |
Predecessor: | Giriraj Mani Pokharel |
Successor: | Devendra Paudel |
Office1: | Minister of Forests and Environment |
Term Start1: | 24 June 2021 |
Term End1: | 12 July 2021 |
President1: | Bidya Devi Bhandari |
Primeminister1: | KP Oli |
Predecessor1: | Narad Muni Rana |
Office2: | Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Security |
Term Start2: | 24 June 2021 |
Term End2: | 13 July 2021 |
President2: | Bidya Devi Bhandari |
Primeminister2: | KP Oli |
Predecessor2: | Bimal Prasad Shrivastav |
Office3: | Minister of Youth and Sports |
Term Start3: | 24 June 2021 |
Term End3: | 13 July 2021 |
President3: | Bidya Devi Bhandari |
Primeminister3: | KP Oli |
Predecessor3: | Ekbal Miya |
Office4: | Minister of Health and Population |
Term Start4: | 24 June 2021 |
Term End4: | 13 July 2021 |
President4: | Bidya Devi Bhandari |
Primeminister4: | KP Oli |
Predecessor4: | Sher Bahadur Tamang |
Office5: | Minister of Urban Development |
Term Start5: | 14 October 2020 |
Term End5: | 25 December 2020 |
President5: | Bidya Devi Bhandari |
Primeminister5: | KP Oli |
Office6: | State Minister for Local Development |
Term Start6: | 10 June 2004 |
Term End6: | 2 February 2005 |
Monarch6: | Gyanendra Shah |
Primeminister6: | Sher Bahadur Deuba |
Office7: | Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha |
Term Start7: | 4 March 2018 |
Predecessor7: | Dhyan Govinda Ranjit |
Constituency7: | Kathmandu 9 |
Term Start8: | October 1994 |
Term End8: | May 1999 |
Predecessor8: | Constituency created |
Successor8: | Tirtha Ram Dangol |
Constituency8: | Kathmandu 9 |
Term Start9: | 1992 |
Term End9: | August 1994 |
Predecessor9: | Madan Bhandari |
Successor9: | Rajendra Prasad Shrestha |
Constituency9: | Kathmandu 5 |
Birth Date: | 22 September 1958 |
Party: | CPN (UML) |
Otherparty: | CPN (ML) |
Nationality: | Nepali |
Krishna Gopal Shrestha (Nepali: 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).
Shrestha joined politics in 1979 as a member of CPN ML, the predecessor of CPN UML.[1] He was arrested and imprisoned multiple times during the fight against the partyless Panchayat system.[1] He became the party's Kathmandu district secretary in 1982.[1] He became Bhaktapur district secretary in 1986, and Lalitpur district secretary in 1990.[1] 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).[1]
He was elected from Kathmandu-5 constituency in the by-election of 1992, after party secretary Madan Bhandari vacated the seat.[1] He won the 1994 legislative election from Kathmandu-7 constituency.[1] He was defeated in Kathmandu-9 in the 1999 election.
He was appointed the State Minister for Local Development in 2005.[1]
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.[1] [2]
In the 2017 election, he was elected from Kathmandu-9 constituency representing CPN UML of the left alliance.[3]
Following the merger of CPN UML with CPN (Maoist Centre), he was appointed the deputy chief of the treasury and financial management department of the new party.[4]
He was born on October 1, 1958, to Hari Lal and Hari Maya Shrestha in Kathmandu.[1] 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.[1] He went on to achieve a Master's Degree in Economics.[1] He has two daughters.[1]