Bhim Bahadur Rawal

Bhim Bahadur Rawal
भीम बहादुर रावल
Minister of Home Affairs of Nepal
In office
2009–2011
President Ram Baran Yadav
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal
Deputy Prime Minister & Defence Minister of Nepal
In office
2015–2016
President Bidhya Devi Bhandari
Prime Minister K.P. Oli
Personal details
Born (1956-12-14) December 14, 1956
Achham, Nepal
Political party Communist Party of Nepal (UML)

Bhim Bahadur Rawal (Nepali: भीम बहादुर रावल; born December 14, 1956) commonly known as Bhim Rawal is a CPN-UML politician. He is former Deputy Prime Minister & Defence Minister of Nepal[1] in Oli cabinet, 2015[2] and former Minister of Home Affairs of Nepal in Madhav Nepal cabinet.[3] He is the vice chairman of Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist).[4] He was taken as prospective future Prime Minister and CPN-UML chairman by his cadres during Nepalese legislative election, 2017 campaign.[5] He won the election from Achham-1 defeating Bharat Swar.[6]

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Personal life

Rawal was born in Achham, Nepal. He is from Chhetri cast and has a wife and two sons. He obtained both master's and bachelor's degrees from the Tribhuwan University and in the 1980s became a lawyer who specialized in legal awareness for the Nepal Bar Association.[7]

Political career

Rawal began his political career when he began serving as Jhalanath Khanal's adviser in 1990. From 1992 to 1993 he served on the United Nations's Cambodian elections panel and later allied himself with Madhav Kumar Nepal. In 1994 he was elected into Parliament following by being its Minister for Commerce, Tourism and Civil Aviation till 1995. From 1998 to 1999 he served the same positions for second term and also was Minister of Science and Technology. In April 2008 he was Proportional representative of the 2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly.[7]

In 2009 he spoke at the Millennium Development Goals' meeting about least developed countries. After the meeting he addressed the Third UN Private Sector Forum regarding poverty and hunger and urged the government and various private sectors to work together in order to form economy's synergy.[8]

In 2014 it was reported that he was injured in an Sharma Oli attack on a campaign trail on Seti-Kathmandu border.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Envoy Upadhyay worked against national interest-DPM Rawal". My Republica. Retrieved December 31, 2017.
  2. ↑ "3 more DPMs, 4 ministers sworn-in; total Cabinet strength is 26". The Himalayan Times. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  3. ↑ "Madhav Nepal expands cabinet, inducts 5 new ministers". DNA India. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  4. ↑ "'PM fails to deliver on promises' - General - The Kathmandu Post". kathmandupost.ekantipur.com. Retrieved June 11, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Supporters see Rawal as-future-PM-UML-boss". The Kathmandu Post. Retrieved December 31, 2017.
  6. ↑ "CPN-UML's Bhim Rawal elected in Achham-1". The Kathmandu Post. Retrieved December 31, 2017.
  7. 1 2 "Bhim Rawal, Home Affairs". Telegraph Nepal. August 28, 2011. Archived from the original on October 9, 2011. Retrieved June 24, 2014.
  8. ↑ "Minister Rawal speaks in high-level event". The Himalayan Times. September 23, 2009. Archived from the original on August 8, 2014. Retrieved July 26, 2014.
  9. ↑ Thira L Bhusal (June 22, 2014). "UML intra-party election turns into bitter rivalry". República. Archived from the original on June 24, 2014. Retrieved June 24, 2014.


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