Baburam Bhattarai

@35th Prime Minister of Nepal, Birthday and Family

Baburam Bhattarai is a Nepalese politician, guerrilla leader, and scholar who served as the country’s 35th Prime Minister

Jun 18, 1954

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Biography

Personal Details

  • Birthday: June 18, 1954
  • Nationality: Nepali
  • Famous: 35th Prime Minister of Nepal, Leaders, Political Leaders, Prime Ministers
  • Spouses: Hisila Yami
  • Childrens: Manushi Bhattarai
  • Universities:
    • School of Planning and Architecture
    • Delhi
    • Chandigarh College of Architecture
    • Jawaharlal Nehru University
    • Amrit Campus
  • Birth Place: Khoplang, Gorkha, Nepal

Baburam Bhattarai born at

Khoplang, Gorkha, Nepal

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Birth Place

Baburam Bhattarai married Hisila Yami who was also a leader in the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist).

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Personal Life

He has a daughter named Manushi.

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Personal Life

He has worked for the distribution of land held by the gentry to the landless farmers in the country.

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Personal Life

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.

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Childhood & Early Life

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.

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Childhood & Early Life

He joined ‘Amrit Science College’ and again scored the highest marks in the board examination.

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Childhood & Early Life

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.

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Childhood & Early Life

He founded the ‘All India Nepalese Students’ Association’ during his stay in Chandigarh and became its President.

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Childhood & Early Life

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.

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Career

He established the CPN (Unity Center) in 1990 and joined the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) under Pushpa Kumar Dahal or Prachanda in 1994.

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Career

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.

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Career

He and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) started agitation very soon before the deadline was over which continued until the April 26, 2006.

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Career

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.

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Career

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.

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Major Works

His book ‘Politico-Economic Rationale of People’s War in Nepal’ was published in 1998.

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Major Works

A book written in the Nepali language ‘Nepal! Krantika Adharharu’ was published in 2004. He has many other articles to his credit.

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Major Works