PUSHPA KAMAL DAHAL | PRACHANDA

Introduction

 Pushpa Kamal Dahal, commonly known as Prachanda was born on December 11, 1954, and is a Nepalese politician who served as Prime Minister of Nepal from 2008 to 2009 and again from 2016 to 2017.

Personal Detail

Date of Birth: 11 December 1954                                                             Father: Muktiram Dahal

Mother: Bhawani Dahal                                                                            Spouse: Sita Dahal

Party: Nepal Communist Party                                                                  

Children: Renu Dahal, Gyanu KC, Prakash Dahal, Ganga Dahal

Education: Bachelor in Agriculture and Animal Science

College: Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science(IAAS), 

Personal Life

He was born as Ghanashyam Dahal,  in a Brahmin family in Pokhara, Kaski. Before changing his name to Pushpa Kamal Dahal during his matriculation exam,   Chitwan was where Prachanda spent the majority of his youth. He worked at a rural development project in Jajarkot that was funded by USAID and earned him a certificate in agriculture science (ISc-Ag) from the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science (IAAS) in Rampur.

He encountered great poverty during his adolescence, which drove him to left-wing political organizations. He joined the Communist Party of Nepal's Fourth Convention in 1981. He was elected general secretary of the Nepali Communist Party in 1989. (Mashal). This organization afterwards changed its name to the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). Even after democracy was restored in 1990, Prachanda continued to operate in secret. While representing the United People's Front in parliament, Baburam Bhattarai led the party's covert wing at the time.

Maoist Uprising

On February 4, 1996, Bhattarai published a list of 40 demands to the government, threatening civil war if they were not met. Sher Bahadur Deuba, Prime Minister of the Nepali Congress, led the administration. The demands were about "nationalism, democracy, and livelihood," and they included things like "discriminatory treaties, including the 1950 Nepal-India Treaty," "land under the control of the feudal system should be confiscated and distributed to the landless and the homeless," and "domination of foreign capital in Nepali industries, business, and finance should be stopped." Prachanda then commanded the CPN(Mmilitaryactivities )'s in establishing control posts, particularly in mountainous areas, until April 26th, 2006.