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.
List of ministers of home affairs This is a list of former ministers of home affairs since 1991: #NameTerm of officePrime MinisterMinister's party1Sher Bahadur Deuba29 May 199130 November 1994Girija Prasad Koirala Nepali Congress2K. P. Sharma Oli30 November 199412 September 1995Man Mohan Adhikari CPN (UML)3Khum Bahadur Khadka12 September 199512 March 1997Sher Bahadur DeubaNepali Congress4Bam Dev Gautam12 March 19977 October 1997Lokendra Bahadur ChandCPN (UML) 5Budhhiman Tamang27 October 19973 December 1997Surya Bahadur ThapaRPP(3)Khum Bahadur Khadka3 December 199715 April 1998Nepali Congress 6Govinda Raj Joshi21 April 199825 December 1998Girija Prasad Koirala25 December 199831 May 19997Purna Bahadur Khadka30 June 199922 March 2000Krishna Prasad Bhattarai(6)Govinda Raj Joshi22 March 200029 September 2000Girija Prasad Koirala8Ram Chandra Paudel29 September 200026 July 2001(3)Khum Bahadur Khadka26 July 20014 October 2002Sher Bahadur Deuba9Dharma Bahadur Thapa11 October 200211 April 2003Lokendra Bahadur ChandIndependent10Badri Prasad Mandal 11 April 20035 June 2003Nepal Sadbhawana Party11Kamal Thapa5 June 200310 June 2004Surya Bahadur ThapaRPP(7)Purna Bahadur Khadka5 July 20041 February 2005Sher Bahadur DeubaNepali Congress (Democratic)12Krishna Prasad Sitaula29 April 20061 April 2007Girija Prasad KoiralaNepali Congress1 April 200718 August 2008(4)Bam Dev Gautam18 August 200825 May 2009Pushpa Kamal Dahal13Bhim Bahadur Rawal25 May 20096 February 2011Madhav Kumar Nepal14Krishna Bahadur Mahara6 February 201129 August 2011Jhala Nath Khanal15Bijay Kumar Gachhadar4 September 201114 March 2013Baburam BhattaraiMJFN (L)16Madhav Ghimire 14 March 201311 February 2014Khil Raj RegmiIndependent(4)Bam Dev Gautam25 February 201412 October 2015Sushil Koirala17Shakti Bahadur Basnet19 October 20154 August 2016KP Sharma Oli18Bimalendra Nidhi4 August 20167 June 2017Pushpa Kamal DahalNepali Congress19Janardan Sharma7 June 201717 October 2017Sher Bahadur Deuba20Ram Bahadur Thapa26 February 201820 May 2021KP Sharma Oli21Khagaraj Adhikari10 June 202122 June 202122Bishnu Prasad Paudel24 June 202113 July 202124Bal Krishna Khand13 July 202126 December 2022Sher Bahadur DeubaNepali Congress23Rabi Lamichhane26 December 202227 January 2023Pushpa Kamal DahalRSP24Narayan Kaji Shrestha31 March 20234 March 2024(23)Rabi Lamichhane6 March 202415 July 2024RSP25Ramesh Lekhak15 July 20248 September 2025KP Sharma OliNepali Congress26Om Prakash Aryal15 September 2025 27 March 2026Sushila KarkiIndependent27Sudan Gurung27 March 202622 April 2026Balendra ShahRSP(27)9 June 2026Incumbent
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External links Official Website of Ministry of Home Affairs