Trading her childhood for war, Kamala Roka, became the first trained female Maoist guerrilla during the conflict. Now she is the first female guerrilla who has become a minister. Stepping into politics in 1989, she became a whole-timer of the Maoist Party in 1991. Wife of YCL Chief Ganesh Man Pun, she started out from her native district Rukum where she became a member of the district committee in 1996. Working in various committees in the Mid-Western Region for six years she shifted her focus as a PLA fighter in the Maoist Gandaki brigade in 2001. She was nominated to the interim parliament and is a CA member from the PR list of the maoist party and served a whip in the Maoist Party for the last three months.