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Ministerial offices


Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal
In office 2006–2007Serving with Amik Sherchan
Prime Minister	Girija Prasad Koirala
Preceded by	Bharat Mohan Adhikari
Succeeded by	Bamdev Gautam
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 2006–2007
Prime Minister	Girija Prasad Koirala
Preceded by	Ramesh Nath Pandey
Succeeded by	Sahana Pradhan
Minister of Home Affairs
In office 1994–1995
Prime Minister	Man Mohan Adhikari
Preceded by	Sher Bahadur Deuba
Succeeded by	Khum Bahadur Khadka

Senior party positions

Chairman of CPN (UML)
Incumbent
Assumed office 8 March 2021
Preceded by	Position established (Party revived as per a Supreme Court verdict)
In office 2014–2018
Preceded by	Jhala Nath Khanal
Succeeded by	Position abolished (himself as chairman of the Nepal Communist Party)
Chairman of the Nepal Communist Party
In office 17 May 2018 – 8 March 2021Serving with Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Preceded by	Position established (New party)
Succeeded by	Position abolished (Party dissolved as per a Supreme Court verdict)

Parliamentary offices


Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 March 2018
Preceded by	Keshav Kumar Budhathoki (as member of the Legislature Parliament)
Constituency	Jhapa 5
In office 1999–2008
Preceded by	Chandra Prakash Mainali
Succeeded by	Gauri Shankar Khadka (as member of the 1st Constituent Assembly)
Constituency	Jhapa 2
In office 1991–1999
Preceded by	Constituency created
Succeeded by	Gopal Prasad Koirala
Constituency	Jhapa 6
Member of the Constituent Assembly / Legislature Parliament
In office 21 January 2014 – 14 October 2017
Preceded by	Bishwodip Lingden Limbu
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Constituency	Jhapa 7

Personal details

Born

Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli
(1952-02-22) 22 February 1952 (age 72)
Iwa, Kingdom of Nepal

Political party

CPN (UML) (1991–2018; 2021–present)

Other political
affiliations

CPN (ML) (1978–1991)
NCP (2018–2021)

Spouse

Radhika Shakya (m. 1987)

Parents

Mohan Prasad Oli
Madhumaya Oli

Signature

Website

kpsharmaoli.com.np

Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli (Nepali: खड्ग प्रसाद शर्मा ओली), commonly known as K. P. Sharma Oli or simply K.P. Oli (English pronunciation: /ˈkeɪ ˈpi ʃɑːrmə oʊliː/, pronounced [ˈkʰʌɽɡʌprʌsad̪ ˈoli]; born 22 February 1952, Iwa, Kingdom of Nepal), is a Nepalese politician who is serving as the prime minister of Nepal since 15 July 2024.

He is chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) since 2014. He previously served as prime minister from 11 October 2015 to 3 August 2016, from 15 February 2018 to 14 May 2021, and from 14 May 2021 to 13 July 2021. He has been the Member of Parliament for Jhapa 5 since 2017. He previously served as an MP for Jhapa 6, Jhapa 2, and Jhapa 7.

Oli opposed India's 2015 blockade of Nepal. He strengthened relations with China as an alternative to Nepal's traditionally close trade ties with India and updated the map of Nepal by constitutional amendment to include territories disputed with India, for which he has received some domestic praise and a reputation as a nationalist. Oli's tenure in office has been controversial for frequent use of tongue-in-cheek remarks, hostility towards critics and the media, and accusations of fostering cronyism and corruption.

Early life and education

K.P. Sharma Oli was born on 22 February 1952 in Iwa in Tehrathum. His father, Mohan Prasad Oli, was a farmer with limited education. His mother, Madhumaya Oli, died from smallpox when he was four. He had a younger brother and three younger sisters from his father's second marriage. Oli completed his primary education at the nearby Pranami Middle School. His family moved to Surungwa, Jhapa in 1958 but following floods in the Kankai river, they were left landless and Oli moved in with his grandparents. His family then migrated to Garamani, Jhapa in 1962. He completed his SLC exam from Adarsha Secondary School in 1970. While in Jhapa, Oli was influenced by the anti-Panchayat and Naxalbari movements. He credits his distant uncle Ramnath Dahal for his communist inclination.

Early political career

Panchayat era (1970–1991)

After he turned eighteen in 1970, Oli became a member of his local chapter of a splinter group of the Communist Party of Nepal. He was arrested in the same year for his involvement in subversive politics. His group later joined the district committee of CPN (Manmohan). After the party split in 1972, he became the organizing secretary of a Coordination Committee for the Jhapa rebellion after former secretary Radha Krishna Mainali contracted tuberculosis. Oli, Mohan Chandra Adhikari and Ram Nath Dahal advocated for organizational expansion and public mobilization arguing that authorities would crack down on them for any violent activities. A majority of the committee favored an armed struggle however and in February 1973 he was removed as secretary and had his membership stripped off by hardliners within the committee led by Chandra Prakash Mainali. The next month, Ramnath Dahal was killed by the Panchayat administration.

Following his removal as secretary, Oli went into hiding in Biratnagar. He then got into contact with Mohan Chandra who was in Kanpur, India at the time. In October 1973 upon his return to Nepal, he was arrested in Rautahat and was imprisoned until 1987. He was first kept in Gaur prison but was moved around before being sent to the Central Jail in Golghar. There he was kept in solitary confinement for four years. Oli was made a central committee member of the Madan Bhandari-led CPN (Marxist–Leninist) while in jail and after his release in 1987 became involved in party activities. He was appointed the Lumbini Zonal chief for the United Left Front in 1989.

Parliamentary politics (1991–2015)

After CPN (Marxist–Leninist) merged with CPN (Marxist) to form the CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) in 1991, Oli became a founding central committee member of the new party. Later that year he became the founding chairman of the Democratic National Youth Federation. In 1992, he was elected as a standing committee member of the party and was appointed as the chief of the party's publicity department. In the 1991 election, Oli was elected from Jhapa 6. Oli supported party general secretary Madan Bhandari's proposal of People's Multiparty Democracy as the party line in the fifth party congress in 1993. After Bhandari's death on 16 May 1993, a commission to conduct an investigation was made by prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala under the leadership of former supreme court justice Prachanda Raj Anil. The UML labeled the party as pro-Congress and formed their own commission headed by Oli. The report by Oli claimed that the crash was an assassination, while the government commission claimed that the incident was an accident.

He was reelected in the 1994 election from Jhapa 6 and became Home Minister in the minority government of Man Mohan Adhikari. Oli was a coordinator of the party's Mahakali treaty study team and played a key role in the treaty's endorsement in the parliament. He supported general secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal at the party's sixth national congress which was boycotted by members led by deputy general secretary Bam Dev Gautam. The boycotting members were suspended by the party and they broke off and reconstituted the CPN (Marxist–Leninist) citing their opposition to the treaty and their unfair treatment within the party. He was reelected again in the 1999 election from Jhapa 2 and Jhapa 6, the latter of which he vacated. In the party's seventh congress in February 2003, Oli put forth a proposal to democratize the party structure and proposed a structure with a chairman and a general secretary. After he was outnumbered in the congress, he withdrew his proposal.

Following the royal coup by King Gyanendra in 2005, he was put under house arrest. Following the 2006 revolution, Oli was appointed as deputy prime minister and foreign minister in Girija Prasad Koirala's interim cabinet. He was also made chair of a cabinet committee to implement the High Level Probe Commission report which investigated abuses of state power and funds since the royal coup. Oli lost in the 2008 Constituent Assembly election in Jhapa 7. At the party's eight general convention in 2009, his previous proposal for organizational changes was accepted. He was also reelected to the central committee by the congress but lost his bid for party chair to Jhala Nath Khanal.

Premiership (2015–present)

In the 2013 Constituent Assembly election, Oli was elected from Jhapa 7. He also became the parliamentary party leader, defeating Khanal in the contest. Oli again challenged for the party leadership at the ninth general convention in July 2015. He defeated former general secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal and was elected as party chair.

First term (October 2015–July 2016)

Main article: First Oli cabinet

Following the promulgation of the new constitution, Oli was elected as Prime Minister in a parliamentary vote on 11 October 2015, receiving 338 votes out of 597 members in the Legislature Parliament. His candidacy was supported by the UCPN (Maoist), Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal, Madheshi Jana Adhikar Forum, Nepal (Loktantrik) and 13 other small parties. He was sworn in on 12 October.

His appointment came at the time of protests in the southern plains demanding revisions to the constitution and a blockade imposed by India. Amid deteriorating relations with India, his cabinet recalled Nepal's ambassador to India, Dip Kumar Upadhaya following differences with the cabinet. On March 20, he went on a state visit to China where the two countries signed trade and transit treaties.

He resigned on 24 July 2016, after losing the support of his coalition partners. The main coalition partner CPN (Maoist Centre) and the opposition Nepali Congress had registered a no-confidence motion against his government on 14 July 2016.

Second and third terms (February 2018–August 2021)

Main articles: Second Oli cabinet and Third Oli cabinet

In the 2017 election, the alliance between the CPN (UML) and CPN (Maoist Centre) gained a majority in the House of Representatives. Oli was elected from Jhapa 5 with a majority of over 28,000 votes. He was unanimously elected as the leader of the parliamentary party on 15 February 2018.

He was appointed prime minister for a second time on 15 February 2018 with the support of CPN (Maoist Centre). He passed the floor test on 11 March with 208 of 268 votes in the 275-member House of Representatives. Following the merger of the two coalition partners to form the Nepal Communist Party, he became co-chair of the new party along with Pushpa Kamal Dahal.

After pressure within the party from Madhav Kumar Nepal and other leaders to either give up the party leadership or the premiership, Dahal was made the executive head of the party. He reshuffled his cabinet on 22 November to manage factions within the party. His government also received criticism from leader within the party including Bhim Rawal for their agreement with the Unites States government for grants under the Millennium Challenge Corporation.

In February 2019, Oli claimed that the world is amazed by the supercomputer being built by Nepal. He was referring to a computer that was being built in the Banepa IT Park, which the makers had claimed to be a supercomputer in spite of its lacking computing power.

In August 2019, Oli claimed the English word rhinoceros should be replaced by the Nepali word for the animal, Gainda (Nepali: गैँडा, romanized: Gaim̐ḍā), and Mount Everest should be known as Sagarmatha (Nepali: सगरमाथा, romanized: Sagarmāthā) by everyone. He said, "...Do you know what gaida ? You people know gaida as rhino. But rhinos are not rhinos, they are gaida. I request you to remember this word—gaida...".

His handling of the COVID-19 pandemic was criticized within the party. Party members were critical of an agreement with a private company in China to purchase medical equipment, and unbeknownst to cabinet members assigning the responsibility to purchase medical equipment to the Nepali Army. The government's late response in evacuating Nepalese citizens was also criticized. He also received criticism for suggesting that the rising number of coronavirus cases were from individuals breaking the lockdown, especially those sneaking into Nepal from India. He also claimed that the corona is similar to the flu and that one should sneeze and drink hot water to drive the virus away.

In May 2020, the Oli government unveiled new maps of the country including the disputed territories of Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura in response to the inauguration of a road across the Lipulekh pass by India, which led to a "cartographic war" between the two countries. A constitutional amendment bill to amend the official map and emblem of the country passed unanimously.

Following calls within the party to resign, Oli reshuffled his cabinet again in October 2020 but was admonished for not consulting the party. Dahal presented a political document at a party secretariat meeting that accused K.P. Sharma Oli of not following the party's directions, unilaterally leading the government and turning a blind eye towards corruption. In response, Oli attacked Dahal for not letting him run the government, promoting factionalism and nepotism as well as not letting victims of the Nepalese Civil War get justice.

On 20 December 2020, K.P. Sharma Oli called on President Bidhya Devi Bhandari to dissolve the House of Representatives and call for fresh elections. In an address to the nation, Oli said he dissolved the house after the party had not let him work as prime minister and that a no-confidence motion was being prepared against him from within the party. The decision was met with criticism from within the party and seven ministers close to the Dahal–Nepal faction in his cabinet resigned in protest. On 23 February 2021, a constitutional bench led by Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher Rana declared the dissolution unconstitutional, and reinstated the House to meet within 13 days. Oli respected the verdict and convened parliament on 7 March.

On 7 March 2021, the Supreme Court ruled to award the Nepal Communist Party to Rishiram Kattel after he challenged the Election Commission's ruling of providing the name of his party to the NCP formed after the 2018 merger. The verdict dissolved the ruling party jointly led by Oli and Dahal, reviving the former CPN (UML) and CPN (Maoist Centre) parties. This reduced Oli's government back to a coalition, exacerbating political tensions. The CPN (Maoist Centre) recalled its ministers on 13 March 2021 and withdrew its support from the Oli government on 5 May 2021, turning it into a minority government.

On 10 May 2021, Oli failed a vote of confidence with 93 of 232 in the House of Representatives, 43 below the 136 majority. He then became a minority Prime Minister on 13 May 2021, when no opposition party formed a majority or claimed it in time. A cabinet meeting chaired by prime minister and party chairman KP Sharma Oli recommended the president to dissolve the House of Representatives on 22 May 2021 after members of his party led by former prime ministers Madhav Kumar Nepal and Jhala Nath Khanal supported Nepali Congress leader Sher Bahadur Deuba as the next prime minister. On 12 July 2021, the constitutional bench of the Supreme Court formed to hear the opposition's writs against the dissolution. It declared the dissolution unconstitutional and ordered the appointment of Deuba as prime minister within 28 hours. After Nepal and Khanal were suspended by the party for disobeying party orders the party split in August the former party leaders forming the CPN (Unified Socialist). Oli was re-elected party chair in the 10th general convention of the CPN (UML) in November 2021 defeating Bhim Rawal in the leadership election.

Fourth term (July 2024–present)

Main article: Fourth Oli cabinet

In the 2022 general election, his party became the second-largest party in the House of Representatives. Oli was reelected from Jhapa 5 with a majority of over 29,000 votes. After power-sharing talks broke down inside the ruling alliance, Oli and Dahal brokered a deal, backing Dahal's bid as prime minister. The UML withdrew from the coalition government ahead of the presidential election in March 2023, but joined hands with Dahal again in March 2024.

Following disagreements with the prime minister and other coalition partners about the annual budget and citing the need for a stable government of national consensus, Oli and Nepali Congress' Deuba agreed on 1 July 2024 to form a rotational government with the two party chairs serving equal time as prime minister. CPN (UML) withdrew its support from the Dahal government, and following a failed a motion of confidence for Dahal in the House on 12 July, Oli was appointed prime minister for a fourth stint on 14 July as part of a coalition with the Nepali Congress, and sworn in the following day.

Political positions

Oli credits his distant uncle Ramnath Dahal for his communist beliefs. As a student in Jhapa at the time, he was influenced by the Naxalite insurgency in West Bengal, India. He had not studied Marxism but had followed the line of Cultural Revolution in his earlier days. He later claimed that it was a "mistaken path".

Oli was regularly in conflict with "hardliners" that advocated for armed struggle against the Panchayat administration. He has been critical of the Maoists for the loss of life during the Civil War.

Relations with India

While organizing the Jhapa rebellion, organizers hired two Naxalite guerrillas to train their members. Oli supported Mohan Chandra Adhikari's opinion that their presence was part of India's imperialist ambitions in the region.

Oli played an important role in getting parliamentary support for the Mahakali treaty that was to be signed with India. The treaty was a reason cited for causing a split in the party and it led to Oli being seen as a pro-India leader.

During his first tenure in 2015, he pushed for closer ties with China following the blockade by India. In his second tenure his government brought in amendments to the constitution which added the disputed territories of Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura to the official map of the country in response to the inauguration of a road across Lipulekh by India.

During the COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal, Oli had lashed out at India, saying that the "Indian virus" was more dangerous than the "Chinese or Italian virus" and even made light of the Indian national emblem. He said this during an address to the parliament where he blamed the rising number of coronavirus cases on individuals violating the nationwide lockdown, especially those sneaking into Nepal from India, claiming that "people coming from India through illegal channels are spreading the virus in the country.", which sparked a round of media attention in India.

While addressing a function celebrating the 207th birth anniversary of poet Bhanubhakta Acharya on July 2020, Oli said Lord Rama was born in Nepal and India had created a fake Ayodhya. He claimed Thori, a place near Birgunj in southern Nepal, to be the birthplace of Rama and it was impossible for Rama to reach Janakpur in eastern Nepal to marry Sita from Ayodhya in India. He later launched an investigation into this matter, asking officials in the region to research the whereabouts of Ayodhyapuri. He also claimed to have found strong evidences of the real Ayodhya, supposedly including the ruins of Someshwar Gadhi and Valmiki Ashram, both of whom are associated with Lord Rama.

On the occasion of International Day of Yoga on 21 June 2021, Oli claimed that yoga originated in Uttarakhand and Nepal in particular. According to him, India as a country did not exist at the time when yogic science was founded. This caused backlash from Nepali and Indian social media.

Federalism and Republicanism

After the dissolution of the parliament in 2003, there were claims from some that Oli had dealings with the palace . He had commented that turning Nepal into a republic would be like "making for America in a bullock cart". Oli also defied party whip and was not present when the interim legislature declared Nepal as a republic.

Oli has also been seen as favoring centralization. During his second term as prime minister he centralized more executive power into his post. He has also been seen as unwilling to let provincial and local governments function autonomously.

Electoral history

Election	House	Constituency		Votes	Result
1991	House of Representatives	Jhapa 6	CPN (UML)	21,049	Y Elected
1994	House of Representatives	Jhapa 6	CPN (UML)	18,861	Y Elected
1999	House of Representatives	Jhapa 2	CPN (UML)	18,909	Y Elected
1999	House of Representatives	Jhapa 6	CPN (UML)	23,749	Y Vacated
2008	Constituent Assembly	Jhapa 7	CPN (UML)	14,959	N Lost
2013	Constituent Assembly	Jhapa 7	CPN (UML)	19,287	Y Elected
2017	House of Representatives	Jhapa 5	CPN (UML)	57,139	Y Elected
2022	House of Representatives	Jhapa 5	CPN (UML)	52,319	Y Elected

Personal life

Oli is married to Radhika Shakya. He met Shakya in 1987 at an event organized by CPN (Marxist–Leninist) for recently released political prisoners in Pulchowk Campus. She was working as a temporary worker for Nepal Rastra Bank at the time, while studying at Patan Campus. Later that year, the two married in a ceremony attended by 20 people.

He currently resides in Balkot, Bhaktapur but also has a residence in Damak, Jhapa.

Health issues

During his imprisonment, Oli contracted tuberculosis and he was also suffering from gastric ulcer. At the time of release, he was described to be extremely scrawny. After the 1990 revolution he developed problems in his kidneys. He underwent a kidney transplant in Apollo Hospital, New Delhi in 2007 and had a second transplant in Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu in 2020. He was admitted to intensive care where he under dialysis for renal disease in November 2019.

Bibliography

Selected speeches of K P Sharma Oli. Kathmandu: Central Office, Communist Party of Nepal – UML. 2016.

Notes

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External links

Official website of CPN UML

House of Representatives of Nepal
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Jhapa 6 1991–1999	Succeeded byGopal Prasad Koirala
Preceded byC. P. Mainali	Member of Parliament for Jhapa 2 1999–2008	Succeeded byGauri Shankar Khadkaas Member of the Constituent Assembly
Preceded byKeshav Kumar Budhathoki	Member of Parliament for Jhapa 5 2018–present	Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded bySher Bahadur Deuba	Minister of Home Affairs 1994–1995	Succeeded byKhum Bahadur Khadka
Preceded byRamesh Nath Pandey	Minister of Foreign Affairs 2006–2007	Succeeded bySahana Pradhan
Preceded bySushil Koirala	Prime Minister of Nepal 2015–2016	Succeeded byPushpa Kamal Dahal
Preceded bySher Bahadur Deuba	Prime Minister of Nepal 2018–2021	Succeeded bySher Bahadur Deuba
Preceded byPushpa Kamal Dahal	Prime Minister of Nepal 2024–present	Incumbent
2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly
Preceded byBishwodip Lingden Limbu	Member of the Constituent Assembly for Jhapa 7 2014–2017	Constituency abolished
Party political offices
Preceded byJhala Nath Khanal	Leader of the Communist Party of Nepal (UML) 2014–2018	Party dissolved
New political party	Leader of the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) 2018–2021	Party dissolved
Party re-established	Leader of the Communist Party of Nepal (UML) 2021–present	Incumbent

v t e Prime ministers of Nepal
Kingdom of Nepal (19th century–1990)	Damodar Pande Bhimsen Thapa Ranga Nath Poudyal Chautariya Puskhar Shah Rana Jang Pande Ranga Nath Poudyal Fateh Jung Shah Mathabarsingh Thapa Fateh Jung Shah Jung Bahadur Rana Bam Bahadur Kunwar Krishna Bahadur Kunwar Rana Jung Bahadur Rana Renaudip Singh Bahadur Bir Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana Dev Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana Chandra Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana Bhim Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana Juddha Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana Padma Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana Mohan Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana 1951 revolution Matrika Prasad Koirala vacant (1952–53) Matrika Prasad Koirala vacant (1955–56) Tanka Prasad Acharya Kunwar Inderjit Singh Subarna Shamsher Rana Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala Tulsi Giri Surya Bahadur Thapa Tulsi Giri Surya Bahadur Thapa Kirti Nidhi Bista vacant (1970–71) Kirti Nidhi Bista Nagendra Prasad Rijal Tulsi Giri Kirti Nidhi Bista Surya Bahadur Thapa Lokendra Bahadur Chand Nagendra Prasad Rijal Marich Man Singh Shrestha Lokendra Bahadur Chand
Kingdom of Nepal (1990–2008)	Krishna Prasad Bhattarai Girija Prasad Koirala Man Mohan Adhikari Sher Bahadur Deuba Lokendra Bahadur Chand Surya Bahadur Thapa Girija Prasad Koirala Krishna Prasad Bhattarai Sher Bahadur Deuba vacant (2002) Lokendra Bahadur Chand Surya Bahadur Thapa Sher Bahadur Deuba vacant (2005–06) 2006 revolution Girija Prasad Koirala
Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal (2008–present)	Dahal I Nepal Khanal Bhattarai Regmi Koirala Oli I Dahal II Deuba I Oli II Deuba II Dahal III Oli III

v t e Current heads of government
Africa	Larbaoui Tambèla Ndirakobuca Ngute Correia e Silva Moloua Halina Suminwa Makosso Mohamed Madbouly Osa Dlamini Ahmed Sima Oury* Duarte de Barros Beugre Mambe Dbeibeh Matekane Ntsay Maïga Djay Jugnauth Akhannouch Maleiane Kuugongelwa Zeine Ngirente Bayoun Trovoada Sonko Sengeh Barre Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi Hussein Majaliwa Dogbé Madouri Nabbanja
Asia	Ankvab Akhund Al Khalifa Yunus* Tobgay Billah Manet Li Gusmão Modi Prabowo Pezeshkian Sudani Netanyahu Ishiba Hassan Bektenov Sabah Japarov Siphandone Mikati Anwar Oyun-Erdene Min Aung Hlaing Oli Kim Sharif Mustafa Marcos Thani Salman Wong Han* Dzhussoev Amarasuriya Al-Bashir Cho Rasulzoda Paetongtarn Al Maktoum Aripov Phạm Mubarak*
Europe	Rama Espot Pashinyan Nehammer Asadov Golovchenko De Croo Krišto Glavchev Plenković Fiala Frederiksen Michal Orpo Bayrou Kobakhidze Scholz Mitsotakis Orbán Bjarni Harris Meloni Kurti Siliņa Risch Paluckas Frieden Abela Recean Guillaume Spajić Schoof Mickoski Støre Tusk Montenegro Ciolacu Mishustin Vučević Fico Golob Sánchez Kristersson Rossi Erdoğan Shmyhal Starmer Vérgez Alzaga
North America	Wever-Croes Webster Browne Davis Mottley Burt Briceño Wheatley O'Connor-Connolly Marrero Cruz Pisas Trudeau Skerrit Bukele Egede Mitchell Arévalo Fils-Aimé* Holness Sheinbaum Meade Drew Pierre Gonsalves Rowley Biden
South America	Milei Arce Lula Boric Petro Noboa Ali Peña Adrianzén Santokhi Lacalle Pou Maduro
Oceania	Albanese Brown Rabuka Adeang Luxon Tagelagi Marape Mataʻafa Manele Sovaleni Teo Salwai
Asterisk () indicate an acting head of government · Italics* indicate a head of government of non-UN member state

v t e Leaders of socialist states not espousing Marxism–Leninism
People's Democratic Republic of Algeria	Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Head of state Nadir Larbaoui, Head of government
People's Republic of Bangladesh	Mohammed Shahabuddin Chuppu, Head of state Muhammad Yunus, Head of government
State of Eritrea	Isaias Afwerki, Head of state and government
Republic of Guinea-Bissau	Umaro Sissoco Embaló, Head of state Nuno Gomes Nabiam, Head of government
Co-operative Republic of Guyana	Irfaan Ali, Head of state and government Mark Phillips, Deputy Head of government
Republic of India	Droupadi Murmu, Head of state Narendra Modi, Head of government
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	Kim Jong Un, General Secretary and Head of state Kim Tok-hun, Head of government
Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal	Ram Chandra Poudel, Head of state KP Sharma Oli, Head of government
Republic of Nicaragua	Daniel Ortega, Head of state and government
Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities	Councils of Good Government, Local leadership
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic	Brahim Ghali, Head of state Bouchraya Hammoudi Bayoun, Head of government
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka	Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Head of state and government
Rojava	Îlham Ehmed and Mansur Selum, Co-Presidents Amina Omar and Riad Darar, Co-Chairs
United Republic of Tanzania	Samia Suluhu, Head of state Kassim Majaliwa, Head of government
Wa State	Bao Youxiang, Head of state and government

v t e SAARC leaders
Hibatullah Akhundzada (de facto) Muhammad Yunus Tshering Tobgay Narendra Modi Mohamed Muizzu KP Sharma Oli Shehbaz Sharif Anura Kumara Dissanayake

Second Oli cabinet

Prime Minister: Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli

Cabinet Ministers

Agriculture and Livestock Development	Basanta Kumar Nembang
Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation	Lila Nath Shrestha
Defence	Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli
Education, Science and Technology	Krishna Gopal Shrestha
Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation	Bishnu Prasad Paudel
Federal Affairs and General Administration	Lila Nath Shrestha
Finance	Bishnu Prasad Paudel

Foreign Affairs	Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli
Forests and Environment	Krishna Gopal Shrestha
Health and Population	Krishna Gopal Shrestha
Home Affairs	Bishnu Prasad Paudel
Information and Communications	Basanta Kumar Nembang
Industry, Commerce and Supplies	Bishnu Prasad Paudel
Labour, Employment and Social Security	Krishna Gopal Shrestha

Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation	Lila Nath Shrestha
Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs	Lila Nath Shrestha
Physical Infrastructure and Transport	Basanta Kumar Nembang
Urban Development	Basanta Kumar Nembang
Water Supply	Basanta Kumar Nembang
Women, Children and Senior Citizens	Lila Nath Shrestha
Youth and Sports	Krishna Gopal Shrestha

Ministers of State

^ Prime Minister Oli in charge of all portfolios not allocated to any other minister. Defence since 14 October 2020 and Foreign Affairs since 24 June 2021, until 13 July 2021.

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