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Baburam Bhattarai
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| बाबुराम भट्टराई | |
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| 36th Prime Minister of Nepal | |
| In office 29 August 2011 – 14 March 2013 |
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| President | Ram Baran Yadav |
| Deputy | Bijaya Kumar Gachchhadar |
| Preceded by | Jhala Nath Khanal |
| Succeeded by | Khil Raj Regmi |
| Minister of Finance | |
| In office 18 August 2008 – 25 May 2009 |
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| President | Ram Baran Yadav |
| Prime Minister | Pushpa Kamal Dahal |
| Chairman of Socialist Party of Nepal | |
| Assumed office 28 July 2022 |
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| Preceded by | Position established |
| Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha | |
| Assumed office 4 March 2018 |
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| Preceded by | Hari Raj Adhikari |
| Constituency | Gorkha 2 |
| Member of Constituent Assembly | |
| In office 28 May 2008 – 28 May 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Parbati Thapa Shrestha |
| Succeeded by | Hari Raj Adhikari |
| Constituency | Gorkha 2 |
| In office 21 January 2014 – 26 September 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Kamala Panta |
| Succeeded by | Hit Raj Pandey |
| Constituency | Gorkha 1 |
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| Born | 18 June 1954 Khoplang, Gorkha, Nepal |
| Political party | Socialist Party of Nepal |
| Other political affiliations |
CPN (Fourth Convention) Samyukta Janamorcha UCPN (Maoist) (before 2015) Naya Shakti (2016-2019) |
| Spouse(s) |
Hisila Yami (m. 1980)
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| Children | 1 |
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| Education | Tribhuvan University Panjab University (B.Arch.) SPA New Delhi (M.Tech.) Jawaharlal Nehru University (PhD) |
Baburam Bhattarai (Nepali: बाबुराम भट्टराई, pronounced Script error: No such module "IPA".; born 18 June 1954), also known by his nom de guerre Laaldhwoj, is a Nepalese politician and former Prime Minister, who presently serves as leader of the Nepal Socialist Party.
Bhattarai was a long-time leading member and deputy chairman of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) prior to founding a new party, Naya Shakti Party, Nepal. He subsequently embraced democratic socialism.
Personal life
Bhattarai was born in Gorkha Belbas in Khoplang VDC. He was born in a low-middle class peasant family. He has three siblings: one elder sister, one younger sister and one younger brother. He belongs to Brahmin group.
He completed his secondary school education from Amar Jyoti High School in Luintel, Gorkha. He was a classmate of Upendra Devkota. He went to high school at Amrit Science College. After that under the Colombo plan scholarship, he studied Bachelor of Architecture in 1977 from Chandigarh. "He had been an outstanding student," says Lieut-Col Bakshi (retd), Principal of the college. It was during this time he became the founding President of All India Nepalese Student's Association. This organization ended up becoming his first step towards building his academic interests outside the field of architecture.
Bhattarai went to the Delhi School of Planning and Architecture for an M.Tech. degree. He is married to Hisila Yami, a fellow Maoist leader. They have a daughter, Manushi.
He completed his PhD degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University in 1986. His thesis was published in 2003 as "The Nature of Underdevelopment and Regional Structure of Nepal - A Marxist Analysis".
See also
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