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| MADHAV KUMAR NEPAL |
- born on March 6, 1953
- Nepali politician who was Prime Minister of Nepal from May 25, 2009, until February 6, 2011
- nominated as a PM through internal arrangements within the current ruling coalition government of Nepal
- Nepal announced his resignation as Prime Minister on June 30, 2010
- previously the General Secretary of Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) for 15 years
- M.K. Nepal was born to Mangal Kumar Upadhyaya and Durgadevi Upadhaya
- graduated in Commerce from Tribhuvan University in 1973 and worked in banking and civil service before turning to full-time politics.
- dropped his surname, Upadhyaya
- joined the communist movement in 1969
- was the Deputy Prime Minister in the Nepalese government during the CPN(UML) minority government in 1994-1995 as well as the leader of the opposition in the National Assembly, almost from 1991-1999
- argued for the Nepal Civil War to be solved through talks and did not believe that mobilization of the army was the solution
- was arrested in 2001 during a crackdown on the anti-government protest
- was also defeated in the Rautahat-6 constituency by CPN(M) candidate Devendra Patel
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