Minister of Home Affairs (Nepal)

The **Minister of Home Affairs** (or simply, the **Home Minister**; ) 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. Occasionally, they are assisted by the **Minister of State of Home Affairs** and the lower-ranked **Deputy Minister of Home Affairs**.

## List of Ministers of Home Affairs

This is a list of former Ministers of Home Affairs since Nepal was declared Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal:
|scope="col"||scope="col"|Name|scope="col"|Party|scope="col"|Assumed office|scope="col"|Left office|Tenure in days|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Bam Dev Gautam|Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|18 August 2008|25 May 2009||||||||
|Bhim Bahadur Rawal|Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|23 May 2009|6 February 2011||||||||
|Krishna Bahadur Mahara|Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)|6 February 2011|29 August 2011||||||||
|Bijay Kumar Gachhadar|Madhesi Jana Adhikar Forum (Loktantrik)|4 September 2011|14 March 2013||||||||
|Madhav Ghimire|Chief secretary (Independent)|14 March 2013|11 February 2014||||||||
|Bam Dev Gautam|Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|25 February 2014|12 October 2015||||||||
|Shakti Bahadur Basnet|Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)|19 October 2015|4 August 2016||||||||
|Bimalendra Nidhi|Nepali Congress|4 August 2016|7 June 2017||||||||
|Janardhan Sharma|Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)|7 June 2017|17 October 2017||||||||
|_Prime Minister_ Sher Bahadur Deuba|Nepali Congress|17 October 2017|15 February 2018||||||||
|Ram Bahadur Thapa|Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) <small>until 17 May 2018</small> Nepal Communist Party <small>from 17 May 2018</small>|26 February 2018|20 May 2021||||||||
|Khagaraj Adhikari|CPN(UML)|10 June 2021|22 June 2021||||||||
|Bishnu Prasad Paudel|CPN(UML)|24 June 2021|13 July 2021||||||||
|Bal Krishna Khand|Nepali Congress|13 July 2021|26 December 2022||||||||
|Rabi Lamichhane|Rastriya Swatantra Party|26 December 2022|27 January 2023||||||||
|_Prime Minister_ Pushpa Kamal Dahal|Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)|27 January 2023|31 March 2023||||||||
|Narayan Kaji Shrestha|Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)|31 March 2023|_Incumbent_||||||||

## Other websites

- Official Website of Ministry of Home Affairs

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: Minister
- **insignia**: Emblem of Nepal (alternative).svg
- **insigniasize**: 150px
- **insigniacaption**: Emblem of Nepal
- **flag**: Flag of Nepal.svg
- **flagsize**: 100
- **flagborder**: No
- **flagcaption**: Flag of Nepal
- **incumbent**: Ramesh Lekhak
- **incumbentsince**: 15 July 2024
- **style**: Excellency, His Excellency
- **body**: Home Affairs
- **seat**: Gorkha, Nepal
- **nominator**: Prime Minister
- **appointer**: President of Nepal, The President
- **termlength**: No fixed term
- **inaugural**: B. P. Koirala
- **reports to**: Prime Minister of Nepal, Prime Minister
- **member of**: Council of Ministers of Nepal, Council of Ministers