Paudel, who became the coordinator of the Central Publicity Campaign Committee of the Congress in 1983, has been a member of the Congress Central Committee since 1987. Poudel is also one of the founding members who played an important role in the establishment of Nepal Student Union. In 1967, he was elected as the general secretary of the Democratic Socialist Youth League. Poudel, an activist of the independent student movement in 1962, was elected as the president of the student union in Saraswati Campus, Kathmandu in 1963. Paudel also participated in the 1961’s rebellion by the Nepali Congress. Born on 14 October 1944, Paudel entered politics at the age of 16 after Congress leader BP Koirala was jailed by King Mahendra.Īfter Koirala returned from exile in India in 1976, Paudel continued politics by staying close to him. Paudel is the senior most leader to reach the post of President of Nepal. NC is the largest party in Nepal after the General election. In his own words, he got the opportunity to become the President after getting everything that the NC had lost. When the prime minister went in alliance with the Congress at the period of presidential election, Ram Chandra Poudel became the third president of the Republic of Nepal.

Pushpa Kamal Dahal then left the alliance with CPN-UML and supported the candidate of opposition party Nepali Congress. But, CPN-UML president KP Sharma Oli did not agree.

However, within two months, the Nepali Congress has again turned Nepali politics into its favour.Īfter NC also gave a vote of confidence to PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal, he proposed ‘a national consensus’ for the post of President. However, NC also supported Dahal while taking a vote of confidence in Parliament on January 10.ĭuring that time, the Congress leader, who is now the President-elect Ram Chandra Poudel had commented that NC lost everything they had gained. He became the Prime Minister with Oli’s support. Before the elections, Dahal had made an agreement with the Nepali Congress led coalition that he should be supported for the post of Prime minister after the poll.īut, after the poll results, NC president Sher Bahadur Deuba refused to make him the prime minister and claimed that he should get the leadership for the first 2.5 years.ĭahal did not agree to it and he reached the residence of KP Sharma Oli, chairman of the opposition party CPN-UML. The Maoist centre led by the current Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal (known as Prachanda) had become the third force in the general election held on November 4. Ram Chandra Paudel Sworn in as Nepal's Third President

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