Minister Rijal Says, "I don't do populist work by donating the earthquake victims". Watch Interview with Minendra Rijal (Earthquake Special).
Minendra Rijal is the current Minister of Information and Communications under Sushil Koirala-led government. Minendra Rijal is a Central Committee Member of the NC-D. He previously served as the Party Spokesperson. He has been the Chairperson of Apex College in Kathmandu since June 2000. He was a Member of the National Planning Commission from May to October 2002, and was a Political Advisor to then-Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba. Rijal was born on October 16, 1957, and received a Ph.D. in Operations Research from New York University in 1995. He is married and has two children.
