KATHMANDU: Nepal’s newly elected President Bidya Devi Bhandari was born in Guranse village of Bhojpur district on June 19, 1961.
She had begun her political career from a leftist student union in late 1970s. She got membership of the then CPN-ML in 1980-81, around two years before she tied the conjugal knot with the famed Communist leader Madan Kumar Bhandari.
Madan Kumar, who was later elected General Secretary of the then CPN-ML and also of the unified CPN-UML, propounded Janatako Bahudaliya Janawad (People’s Multiparty Democracy), the guiding principle of today’s UML.
The leader is also attributed for popularising Nepal’s Communist movement to a new height.
But, the most popular Communist leader of the nation during the time died in a jeep accident in Dasdhunga of Chitwan on 16 May, 1993. After the yet-to-be-solved mysterious accident, which many people still believe was a murder, the seat of Member of Parliament from Kathmandu-1 was vacant.
Bhandari contested in the by-election to fill the vacancy and she won the race, defeating the former Prime Minister Krishna Prasad Bhattarai of Nepali Congress.
She served as a Member of the Parliament for a year.
Bhandari also won two subsequent parliamentary elections from Kathmandu-2 in 1994 and 1999.
In the 1994 elections, she had defeated Nepali Congress candidate Daman Nath Dhungana. Dhungana was speaker of the House of Representatives before the elections.
She was a member of the Interim Parliament formed after the 2006 Janaandolan II.
She had begun her political career from a leftist student union in late 1970s. She got membership of the then CPN-ML in 1980-81, around two years before she tied the conjugal knot with the famed Communist leader Madan Kumar Bhandari.
Madan Kumar, who was later elected General Secretary of the then CPN-ML and also of the unified CPN-UML, propounded Janatako Bahudaliya Janawad (People’s Multiparty Democracy), the guiding principle of today’s UML.
The leader is also attributed for popularising Nepal’s Communist movement to a new height.
But, the most popular Communist leader of the nation during the time died in a jeep accident in Dasdhunga of Chitwan on 16 May, 1993. After the yet-to-be-solved mysterious accident, which many people still believe was a murder, the seat of Member of Parliament from Kathmandu-1 was vacant.
Bhandari contested in the by-election to fill the vacancy and she won the race, defeating the former Prime Minister Krishna Prasad Bhattarai of Nepali Congress.
She served as a Member of the Parliament for a year.
Bhandari also won two subsequent parliamentary elections from Kathmandu-2 in 1994 and 1999.
In the 1994 elections, she had defeated Nepali Congress candidate Daman Nath Dhungana. Dhungana was speaker of the House of Representatives before the elections.
She was a member of the Interim Parliament formed after the 2006 Janaandolan II.
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