Damodar Pande (died 1804) was the Prime Minister of Nepal from 1799 to 1804. He was the first Prime Minister of Nepal (Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala

Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala

Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala was the Prime Minister of Nepal from 1959 to 1960. He led the Nepali Congress, a social democratic political party.Koirala was the first democratically elected Prime Minister in Nepal's history...

 was the first elected

Election

An election is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy operates since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the...

 Prime Minister).

Rana Bahadur Shah

Rana Bahadur Shah

Rana Bahadur Shah, King of Nepal was the third King of greater Nepal. He succeeded to the throne in 1777 on the death of his father, Pratap Singh Shah. He ruled under the regencies of his mother, Queen Rajendra Laxmi and then of his uncle, Bahadur Shah...

, the King of Nepal from 1777 to 1799, was shocked and saddened by the death of his mistress in 1799. Owing to his irrational behavior, he was forced to resign by the citizens. He left the throne to his one and half year old son Girvan Yuddha Shah

Girvan Yuddha Bikram Shah Deva

Girvan Yuddha Bikram Shah Deva, King of Nepal , also called Girvanyuddha Bikrama Shah, was the King of Nepal from 1799 to 1816....

 and fled to Banaras along with his followers like Bhimsen Thapa

Bhimsen Thapa

Bhimsen Thapa was the Prime Minister of Nepal from 1806 to 1837. After his initial rise to become the prime minister of Nepal during the reign of Rana Bahadur, the successive minority of Girvan Yuddha Shah and Rajendra Bikram Shah, along with the support from Maharani Tripurasundari helped him to...

, Dalbhanjan Pande and Rajrajeshwori.

Damodar Pande took over the administration and became the first Prime Minister of Nepal. He always tried to protect king Girvan Yuddha Shah

Girvan Yuddha Bikram Shah Deva

Girvan Yuddha Bikram Shah Deva, King of Nepal , also called Girvanyuddha Bikrama Shah, was the King of Nepal from 1799 to 1816....

 and keep Rana Bahadur

Rana Bahadur Shah

Rana Bahadur Shah, King of Nepal was the third King of greater Nepal. He succeeded to the throne in 1777 on the death of his father, Pratap Singh Shah. He ruled under the regencies of his mother, Queen Rajendra Laxmi and then of his uncle, Bahadur Shah...

off of Nepal. However, in 1804 the former king came back and took over the post of mukhtiyar or Prime Minister. Damodar Pande was then killed.