Bijay Kumar Gachhadar
Nepali politician
Bijay Kumar Gachhadar (Nepali: बिजयकुमार गच्छदार; born 1 February 1954) is a Nepalese politician and former leader of the Nepali Congress. He has served five terms as deputy prime minister of Nepal under the government of Madhav Kumar Nepal, Baburam Bhattarai, KP Sharma Oli, Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Sher Bahadur Deuba. He was the second vice-president of Nepali Congress having been nominated after merger of Nepal Loktantrik Forum into Nepali Congress.
Political career
In April 2008, he won the Constituent Assembly election, 2013 with 23769 votes. Gachhadar was previously in the Madhesi people forum and Nepali Congress (Democratic), and was Minister of Water Resources. Gachhadar was formally expelled from Nepali Congress in March 2008, by that time he had already joined PRF. He was subsequently appointed as Minister and sworn in on 22 August 2008.
On 4 June 2009 he was appointed as the deputy prime minister for the first time keeping in consideration his contribution to establish Madhav Kumar Nepal's administration.
Again as per the poll in the cabinet, he was again appointed as the Deputy Prime minister and Minister of Home Affairs in the government led by Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai. On 16 October 2017 his party Nepal Democratic Forum merged with Nepali Congress. He was nominated Vice-president of Nepali Congress alongside Bimalendra Nidhi till 2021.
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