Honorific-Prefix: | Honourable |
Sharat Singh Bhandari | |
Native Name: | शरतसिंह भण्डारी |
Office1: | Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Security of Nepal |
Termstart1: | 15 July 2024 |
President1: | Ram Chandra Paudel |
Primeminister1: | KP Sharma Oli |
Predecessor1: | Dol Prasad Aryal |
Termstart2: | 31 March 2023 |
Termend2: | 4 March 2024 |
President2: | Ram Chandra Paudel |
Primeminister2: | Pushpa Kamal Dahal |
Predecessor2: | Dol Prasad Aryal |
Successor2: | Dol Prasad Aryal |
Office3: | Minister of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation of Nepal |
Term Start3: | 4 June 2021 |
Term End3: | 22 June 2021 |
President3: | Bidya Devi Bhandari |
Primeminister3: | KP Sharma Oli |
Predecessor3: | Top Bahadur Rayamajhi |
Successor3: | Pampha Bhusal |
Office4: | Minister of Defence of Nepal |
Term Start4: | 4 September 2011 |
Term End4: | 14 March 2013 |
President4: | Ram Baran Yadav |
Primeminister4: | Baburam Bhattarai |
Successor4: | Khil Raj Regmi |
Office6: | Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha |
Term Start6: | 4 March 2018 |
Constituency6: | Mahottari 2 |
Predecessor6: | Kiran Yadav |
Term Start7: | May 1999 |
Term End7: | May 2002 |
Predecessor7: | Ram Vilas Yadav |
Successor7: | Ganesh Tiwari Nepali |
Constituency7: | Mahottari 3 |
Term Start8: | October 1994 |
Term End8: | May 1999 |
Predecessor8: | Beni Madhav Singh |
Successor8: | Mahendra Kumar Ray |
Constituency8: | Mahottari 4 |
Office9: | Member of Constituent Assembly |
Term Start9: | 28 May 2008 |
Term End9: | 28 May 2012 |
Predecessor9: | Constituency established |
Successor9: | Sitaram Bhandari |
Constituency9: | Mahottari 6 |
Party: | Loktantrik Samajwadi Party |
Nationality: | Nepalese |
Otherparty: | People's Socialist Party (2020–2021) Rastriya Janata Party (2017–2020) Rastriya Madhesh Samajbadi (2013–2020) Madheshi Janaadhikar Forum, Nepal (Democratic) (2009–2013) Madhesi Jana Adhikar Forum, Nepal (2008–2009) Nepali Congress (Democratic) (2002–2007) Nepali Congress (1992–2002, 2007-2008) Rastriya Prajatantra Party (? –1991) |
Birth Date: | 8 October 1954[1] |
Sharat Singh Bhandari (ne|शरतसिंह भण्डारी) is a Nepalese politician and a former Minister of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation of Government of Nepal. HIs ministerial tenure began on 4 June 2021 but he was removed from the post by the Supreme Court on 22 June 2021, making his tenure of just 18 days one of the shortest for ministers in Nepal till date (the shortest being that of Raj Kishor Yadav).[2] [3] He also assumed the post of Ministry of Defence in the Baburam Bhattarai cabinet. He was elected to the Pratinidhi Sabha in the 1999 election on behalf of the Nepali Congress.[4] He is one of the most time entries as a minister in cabinet of Nepal.