Madhav Kumar Nepal, Prime Minister of Nepal

Madhav Kumar Nepal, Prime Minister of Nepal

Madhav Kumar Nepal, Prime Minister of Nepal

1953: born in Gaur-8 Rautahat district

Marital status: Married, survive with wife, one daughter and one son

1968: worked in civil and banking service
1969: became member of the Communist Party of Nepal (PL Group)

1973: graduated in management from Tribhuvan University

1974: quit civil and banking career

1976: arrested under Treason Act and imprisoned for two years

1978: became founding politburo member of the CPN-ML

1990: worked as a member of the central high command for the People’s Movement and a member of the Constitution Recommendation Commission

1991: served as a leader of the opposition party in the upper house for the next seven years

1993: took on the responsibility of the party’s General Secretary

1994: served as deputy prime minister, defense and foreign affairs minister

1999: elected as a member of the House of Representatives from Rautahat

2008: quit the post of the party general secretary after defeat in the Constituent Assembly elections

May 25, 2009: took office of the Prime Minister of Nepal

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Ram Baran YADAV, President of Nepal

Ram Baran YADAV, President of Nepal

Ram Baran YADAV, President of Nepal

Baran Yadav became Nepal’s first president following his victory in the presidential run-off in the country’s powerful assembly.

Yadav was born on 4 February 1948 in the small village of Sapahi in Dhanusha district in south-eastern Nepal and was the fourth son of Thani and Ramrita Yadav.

He received his schooling and higher education in Kathmandu before pursuing his interest in medicine in India.

Yadav completed his MBBS from Calcutta Medical College in India and then went on to receive his MD from the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Research in Chandigarh of India.

Although a successful medical doctor, Yadav was never far from politics.
He began his association with Nepalese politics when he led anti- government protests as a student leader in 1960 following the outlawing of political parties by the then king Mahendra.

Yadav was at the forefront of every pro-democracy movement the country has seen in the past 30 years.

He served two terms as the health minister in the 1990s and currently is the Nepali Congress general secretary.

Yadav represents the ethnic Madhsi community of southern Nepal.
His election as the country’s first president was a twist of fate and an unexpected development following a new alliance between the Nepali Congress, the Communist Party of Nepal – Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) and the ethnic Madhesi People’s Rights Forum.

The alliance sprung up just a day before the end of the deadline to nominate candidates after CPN-UML and the Madhesi People’s Rights Forum accused the Maoists of betrayal.

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Girija Prasad Koirala, Former Prime Minister of Nepal

Date of Birth :
1925 A. D.

Parents:
Late Mr K.P. Koirala
Late Mrs divya Koirala

Daughter:
Ms Sujata Koirala

Designation:
Prime Minister of Nepal
President, Nepali Congress Party

Political Background:
Started political career joining the Indian Freedom Struggle and the historic Nepalese Revolution against Rana regime by organizing the first Labour’s Movement in Biratnagar Jute Mill in 1947-48.

1948  Founding Member and President of Nepal Trade Union Congress (erstwhile Nepal  Mazdoor Congress).

1952-1960 President, Morang District, Nepali Congress 1960-1967    Imprisoned after 1960 coup. Spent seven years in prison, During the jail, sustained 21 days Hunger Strike.

1968 Exiled in India along with senior Nepali Congress Party leaders and workers.

1979 Returned to Nepal with the Programme of National Reconciliation propounded by
B.P. Koirala.

1975-1991  General Secretary of Nepali Congress Party.

1987  Senior Leader of the peaceful “Satyagraha” (Civil Disobedience) movement and put under “house arrest” for nine months. 1990 Senior Leader and Nepali Congress Party General Secretary during the popular “Jana Andolan” (Mass Movement), which restored the Multi Party System in Nepal.

1991 Elected Member, House of Representatives from Morang-1 and Sunsari-5.

1991 Elected as leader of Parliamentary Party of Nepali Congress Party.

1991-1994 Appointed as Prime Minister of Nepal.

1994 Elected Member, House of Representatives from Morang-1 and Sunsari-5 in mid-term election.

1995 Elected as President of Nepali Congress Party.

1997 Elected as Leader of the Parliamentary Party of Nepali Congress Party.

1998-1999 Prime Minister of Nepal.

1999 Elected Member, House of Representatives from Morang-1 and Sunsari

2000 Elected as Leader of the Parliamentary Party of Nepali Congress Party.

2000 Elected as Prime Minister of Nepal.

2001 Elected as President of Nepali Congress Party.

2005 Elected as President of Nepali Congress Party.

2006 Leader of People’s Movement initiated by Seven Party Alliance (SPA)

2006 April 28
Prime Minister of Nepal.

Hobbies:
Reading contemporary biographies of renowned political personalities, short stories, political memoirs.