Prachanda elected Nepal’ s new PM
Anil Giri, HT, 4 Aug 2016, KATHMANDU: Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ was on Wednesday elected as the 39 th prime minister of Nepal after securing the required majority in Parliament.
Maoist party chief Prachanda was on elected by lawmakers as Nepal’s PM for a second time, promising to lead the nation toward economic development.
This is Dahal’s second tenure in the country’s top post.
He secured 363 votes in the election.
Prachanda was supported by Nepal i Congress, Sanghiya Gathabandhan, Madhesi Janadhikar Forum-Loktantrik, Rastriya Prajatantra Party and other fringe parties during the election.
Dahal was the only candidate for the election.
Of the total 595 members, 573 cast their votes in the election. There were 210 votes cast against Prachanda.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Prachanda immediately after the election.
Modi also extended an invitation to Prachanda, said Jhak Bahadur Mahara, the personal secretary of Prachanda.
While thanking Modi, Prachanda said he will work in close cooperation with India.
After the conversation, Modi tweeted, “spoke to Nepal’s PM-elect Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ ji & congratulated him. Assured him of our full support & invited him to India.”
Prachanda’s election is expected to bring much-needed political stability in the country bogged down by deep divisions over a new constitution.
India also has its reasons to be relieved, given that it has had an anxious relationship with the Himalayan nation under Prime Minister KPS harm a Oli, after the promulgation of a new constitution last September.
Though he is known to have an anti-India stance, observers say Prachanda seems to have softened his position and his elevation maybe good for India-Nepal relations, which experienced turbulence under Oli.
Prachanda’s life is intertwined with Nepal’s slow and often bloody transition towards democracy, shaking off its past as a Himalayan kingdom.
Born into a simple lower-middle class family on December 11, 1954 in Kaski district, Prachanda holds a bachelor' s degree in Agriculture and Animal Science.
After college, he spent six years as a teacher, and worked for USAID in Jajorkot, which was facing massive poverty and inequality.
The dire conditions there inspired him to join politics.
He rose through the ranks of the Maoist party, which evolved through a number of splits.
Prachanda led the armed revolution in 1996 and became the supreme commander of the People's Liberation Army.
CPN (Maoist) declared a ‘people’s war’ on Feburary 4, 1996 and started looting weapons of policemen posted in rural Nepal.
The Maoists blew up police posts and terrorising the people and gradually expanded its military and political clout across rural Nepal.
People from backward communities and ethnic minorities extended support to the Maoists.
The deterioration of Kathmandu politics in the wake of the Royal massacre of 2001 came as a panacea to the Maoists.
Prachanda led the bloody civil war for 10 years, during which over 13,000 people were killed Ending his 25-year long underground life, 'Prachanda' made a public appearance at Baluwatar, the prime minister’ s residence, on June 16,2006 with his deputy, Baburam Bhattarai.
Once a wanted man for revolting against the state, Prachanda became the prime minister of Nepal on August 18, 2008 and remained in office till May 25, 2009.
Prachanda is married to Sita Dahal and have four children.
Born into a simple lower-middle class family on December 11, 1954 in Kaski district, Prachanda holds a bachelor' s degree in Agriculture and Animal Science.
After college, he spent six years as a teacher, and worked for USAID in Jajorkot, which was facing massive poverty and inequality.
The dire conditions there inspired him to join politics.
He rose through the ranks of the Maoist party, which evolved through a number of splits.
Prachanda led the armed revolution in 1996 and became the supreme commander of the People's Liberation Army.
CPN (Maoist) declared a ‘people’s war’ on Feburary 4, 1996 and started looting weapons of policemen posted in rural Nepal.
The Maoists blew up police posts and terrorising the people and gradually expanded its military and political clout across rural Nepal.
People from backward communities and ethnic minorities extended support to the Maoists.
The deterioration of Kathmandu politics in the wake of the Royal massacre of 2001 came as a panacea to the Maoists.
Prachanda led the bloody civil war for 10 years, during which over 13,000 people were killed Ending his 25-year long underground life, 'Prachanda' made a public appearance at Baluwatar, the prime minister’ s residence, on June 16,2006 with his deputy, Baburam Bhattarai.
Once a wanted man for revolting against the state, Prachanda became the prime minister of Nepal on August 18, 2008 and remained in office till May 25, 2009.
Prachanda is married to Sita Dahal and have four children.
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