Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal

The **deputy prime minister of Nepal** () is the deputy head of government of Nepal. The deputy prime minister is second in seniority in the Council of Ministers of Nepal. The deputy prime minister is the senior-most member of cabinet after prime minister in the Government of Nepal. The deputy prime minister presides and chairs the cabinet in the absence of prime minister.

## List of deputy prime ministers of Nepal

The following individuals have been officially appointed as deputy prime minister of Nepal since the country was declared a republic in 2008:
|Name|Additional portfolio|Political party|Assumed office|Left office|Prime Minister|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Bam Dev Gautam|Minister of Home Affairs|Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|August 2008|May 2009|Pushpa Kamal Dahal|||||
|Bijay Kumar Gachhadar|Minister for Physical Planning and Works|Madhesi Janaadhikar Forum, Nepal (Democratic)|25 May 2009|rowspan="2"|6 February 2011|rowspan="2"|Madhav Kumar Nepal|||
|Sujata Koirala|Minister of Foreign Affairs|Nepali Congress|12 October 2009|||||||
|Krishna Bahadur Mahara|Minister of Home Affairs|Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)|rowspan="2"|4 May 2011|rowspan="2"|29 August 2011|rowspan="2"|Jhala Nath Khanal||
|Upendra Yadav|rowspan="2"|Minister of Foreign Affairs|Madhesi Jana Adhikar Forum|||||||
|Narayan Kaji Shrestha|Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)|rowspan="2"|4 September 2011|rowspan="2"|14 March 2013|rowspan="2"|Baburam Bhattarai|||
|Bijay Kumar Gachhadar|Minister of Home Affairs|Madhesi Janaadhikar Forum, Nepal (Democratic)||||||||
|Prakash Man Singh|Minister for Local Development|Nepali Congress|rowspan="2"|25 February 2014|rowspan="2"|12 October 2015|rowspan="2"|Sushil Koirala||
|Bam Dev Gautam|Minister of Home Affairs|Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)||||||||
|Bijay Kumar Gacchadar|Minister for Physical Planning and Transport|Nepal Loktantrik Forum|rowspan="2"|12 October 2015|rowspan="5"|4 August 2016|rowspan="6"|KP Sharma Oli||
|Kamal Thapa|Minister for Foreign Affairs|Rastriya Prajatantra Party||||||||
|Top Bahadur Rayamajhi|Minister for Energy|Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)|19 October 2015|||||||
|Chandra Prakash Mainali|Minister for Women and Children|Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist–Leninist) (2002)|rowspan="3"|5 November 2015||||||
|Chitra Bahadur KC|Minister for Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation|Rastriya Janamorcha||||||||
|Bhim Bahadur Rawal|Minister of Defence|Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|1 August 2016|||||||
|Bimalendra Nidhi|Minister of Home Affairs|Nepali Congress|rowspan="2"|4 August 2016|rowspan="3"|31 May 2017|rowspan="3"|Pushpa Kamal Dahal||
|Krishna Bahadur Mahara|Minister of Finance|Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)||||||||
|rowspan="2"|Bijay Kumar Gacchhadar|rowspan="2"|Minister of Federal Affairs and Local Development|rowspan="2"|Nepal Loktantrik Forum|8 May 2017||||
|rowspan="3"|7 June 2017|rowspan="2"|15 February 2018|rowspan="4"|Sher Bahadur Deuba|||||
|Gopal Man Shrestha|Minister of Education|Nepali Congress||||||||
|Krishna Bahadur Mahara|Minister of Foreign Affairs|Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)|17 October 2017|||||||
|Kamal Thapa|Minister for Energy and Urban Development|Rastriya Prajatantra Party|17 October 2017|14 February 2018||||||
|Ishwor Pokharel|Minister of Defence|Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|rowspan="2"|1 June 2018|4 June 2021|rowspan="7"|KP Sharma Oli|||
|rowspan="2"|Upendra Yadav|Minister for Health and Population|rowspan="2"|Samajbadi Party, Nepal|20 November 2019|||||
|Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs|21 November 2019|24 December 2019||||||||
|Bishnu Prasad Paudel|Minister of Finance|rowspan="2"|Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|rowspan="3"|4 June 2021|rowspan="3"|22 June 2021|||
|Raghubir Mahaseth|Minister of Foreign Affairs|||||||||
|Rajendra Mahato|Ministry of Urban Development|People's Socialist Party, Nepal||||||||
|rowspan="2"|Narayan Kaji Shrestha|rowspan="2"|Minister of Physical Infrastructure and Transport|rowspan="2"|Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)|rowspan="2"|26 December 2022|rowspan="2"|Incumbent|
|rowspan="7"|Pushpa Kamal Dahal|||||||||
|Bishnu Prasad Paudel|Minister of Finance|Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|26 December 2022|27 February 2023||||||
|Rabi Lamichhane|Minister of Home Affairs|Rastriya Swatantra Party|26 December 2022|27 January 2023||||||
|Rajendra Prasad Lingden|Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation|Rastriya Prajatantra Party|17 January 2023|25 February 2023||||||

## Infobox (political post)

- **post**: Deputy Prime Minister
- **body**: Nepal
- **native name**: नेपालको उप-प्रधानमन्त्री
- **insignia**: Emblem of Nepal (alternative).svg
- **insigniacaption**: Emblem of Nepal
- **incumbent**: Prakash Man Singh
Bishnu Prasad Paudel
- **incumbentsince**: 15 July 2024
- **abbreviation**: DPM
- **style**: The Right Honourable
- **appointer**: President of Nepal
- **termlength**: At the President of Nepal, president's pleasure
- **salary**: Nepalese rupees, रु77,640
- **inaugural**: Subarna Shamsher Rana
- **flag**: Flag of Nepal.svg
- **flagcaption**: Flag of Nepal
- **flagsize**: 100px