Amod Prasad Upadhyay

Amod Prasad Upadhyay (Nepali: आमोद प्रसाद उपाध्याय; born March 29, 1936) is a Nepalese social worker and politician.

[1] He studied at Adarsha Vidyala in Biratnagar and completed his higher secondary education from Benaras, India.

He contested and won the 1999 by-elections for the Pratinidhi Sabha from the Morang-1 seat vacated by Girija Prasad Koirala.

Upadhyay was Nepal's Minister for Education and Sports from March 2000 to May 2002 in the cabinets of Girija Prasad Koirala and Sher Bahadur Deuba.

[2] Upadhyay protested the royal takeover of Feb 1, 2005 and was held in detention for several weeks by the government of King Gyanendra citing the Public Security Act (PSA).