Minister of Home Affairs (Nepal)

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Minister of Home Affairs
गृहमन्त्रालय
Emblem of Nepal
Flag of Nepal
Incumbent Ramesh Lekhak since 15 July 2024
Ministry of Home Affairs
Style	His Excellency
Member of	Council of Ministers
Reports to	Prime Minister
Nominator	Home Minister
Appointer	The President
Term length	No fixed term
Inaugural holder	B. P. Koirala
Formation	21 February 1951; 73 years ago (21 February 1951)
First holder	Kapil Sharma Adhikari

The Minister of Home Affairs (or simply, the Home Minister, (Nepali: गृहमन्त्री, romanized: Gṛha Mantrī) is the head of the Ministry of Home Affairs of the Government of Nepal. One of the senior-most officers in the Federal Cabinet, the chief responsibility of the Home Minister is the maintenance of Nepal's internal security; the country's large police force comes under its jurisdiction. Currently the Home Secretary of Nepal is Kapil Sharma Adhikari. He was appointed to this position in September 2024. Earlier Kapil was working as Secretary of National Statistics Office. His experience at the helm of the Ministry of Home Affairs and his background in working in various ministries make him qualified for this post., they are assisted by the Minister of State of Home Affairs and the lower-ranked Deputy Minister of Home Affairs.^[1]^[2]

List of ministers of home affairs

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This is a list of former Ministers of Home Affairs since Nepal was declared Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal:

	Name	Term of office				Minister's Party
1	Bam Dev Gautam	18 August 2008^[3]	25 May 2009	280 days	Pushpa Kamal Dahal	CPN (UML)
2	Bhim Bahadur Rawal	25 May 2009	6 February 2011	1 year, 257 days	Madhav Kumar Nepal	CPN (UML)
3	Krishna Bahadur Mahara	6 February 2011	29 August 2011	204 days	Jhala Nath Khanal	Maoist Centre
4	Bijay Kumar Gachhadar	4 September 2011	14 March 2013	1 year, 191 days	Baburam Bhattarai	MJFN (L)
5	Madhav Ghimire	14 March 2013	11 February 2014	334 days	Khil Raj Regmi	Independent
6	Bam Dev Gautam	25 February 2014	12 October 2015	1 year, 229 days	Sushil Koirala	CPN (UML)
7	Shakti Bahadur Basnet	19 October 2015^[4]	4 August 2016	290 days	KP Sharma Oli	Maoist Centre
8	Bimalendra Nidhi	4 August 2016^[5]	7 June 2017	307 days	Pushpa Kamal Dahal	Nepali Congress
9	Janardan Sharma	7 June 2017^[6]	17 October 2017	132 days	Sher Bahadur Deuba	Maoist Centre
10	Ram Bahadur Thapa	26 February 2018^[a]	20 May 2021	3 years, 83 days	KP Sharma Oli	Maoist Centre
11	Khagaraj Adhikari	10 June 2021	22 June 2021	12 days		CPN (UML)
12	Bishnu Prasad Paudel	24 June 2021	13 July 2021	19 days		CPN (UML)
13	Bal Krishna Khand	13 July 2021	26 December 2022	1 year, 166 days	Sher Bahadur Deuba	Nepali Congress
14	Rabi Lamichhane	26 December 2022	27 January 2023^[7]	32 days	Pushpa Kamal Dahal	RSP
15	Narayan Kaji Shrestha	31 March 2023	4 March 2024	339 days		Maoist Centre
16	Rabi Lamichhane	6 March 2024	15 July 2024	131 days		RSP
17	Ramesh Lekhak	15 July 2024	Incumbent	154 days	KP Sharma Oli	Nepali Congress

Explanatory Note

^ Became member of NCP after merger of CPN(UML) and CPN(MC) on 17 May 2018

References

^ "गृह मन्त्रालय". moha.gov.np (in Nepali). Retrieved 2022-01-29.
^ "Council of Ministers | Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers". Retrieved 2022-01-29.
^ "Meet the new cabinet of ministers". Nepali Times. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
^ "Nepal's Prime Minister KP Oli Expands Cabinet, Inducts 9 New Ministers". NDTV. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
^ "13 new ministers take oath from President". The Himalayan Times. 26 August 2016. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
^ "Sher Bahadur Deuba sworn-in as Nepal's 40th prime minister". Xinhua. Archived from the original on March 30, 2019. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
^ "रवि लामिछानेको सांसद पद खारेज". OnlineKhabar. Retrieved 27 January 2023.

External links

Official Website of Ministry of Home Affairs

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