Baburam Bhattarai is a Nepalese politician, guerrilla leader, and scholar who served as the country’s 35th Prime Minister
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Baburam Bhattarai is a Nepalese politician, guerrilla leader, and scholar who served as the country’s 35th Prime Minister
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Baburam Bhattarai married Hisila Yami who was also a leader in the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist).
He has a daughter named Manushi.
He has worked for the distribution of land held by the gentry to the landless farmers in the country.
Baburam Bhattarai was born on June 18, 1854 in Gorkha in Khoplang VDC in central Nepal into a poor peasant family. He had an elder sister, a younger sister and a younger brother.
He did his schooling at ‘Amar Jyoti High School’ in Luintel, Gorkha. He ranked first in the whole of Nepal during the ‘School Leaving Certificate Exam’ in 1970.
He joined ‘Amrit Science College’ and again scored the highest marks in the board examination.
He received a scholarship under the Colombo Plan and went to Chandigarh in India to study architecture. He received his Bachelor’s degree in architecture in 1977.
He founded the ‘All India Nepalese Students’ Association’ during his stay in Chandigarh and became its President.
He joined the pro-Maoist Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) in 1981 after returning to Nepal and became a leader of the movement in 1986.
He established the CPN (Unity Center) in 1990 and joined the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) under Pushpa Kumar Dahal or Prachanda in 1994.
On February 4, 1996 Bhattarai gave the Prime Minister of Nepal Sher Bahadur Deuba a list of 40 demands and threatened an armed struggle if the demands were not met by the ruling Nepali Congress.
He and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) started agitation very soon before the deadline was over which continued until the April 26, 2006.
Bhattarai had a disagreement with Prachanda about power sharing within the CPN (M) party during the armed movement and was expelled from the party and put under house-arrest but was reinstated later.
The PhD thesis of Baburam Bhattarai titled ‘The Nature of Underdevelopment and Regional Structure of Nepal – A Marxist Analysis’ was published as a book in 2003.
His book ‘Politico-Economic Rationale of People’s War in Nepal’ was published in 1998.
A book written in the Nepali language ‘Nepal! Krantika Adharharu’ was published in 2004. He has many other articles to his credit.