Ram Chandra Paudel sworn in as Nepal’s third President

Ram Chandra Paudel was sworn in as Nepal’s third President on Monday. Paudel replaces Bidya Devi Bhandari, whose time period ended on March 12. This is the third presidential election in Nepal for the reason that nation grew to become a republic in 2008.

Ram Chandra Paudel waves in direction of the media after being elected because the third president of Nepal on the Parliament in Kathmandu. (Photo: Reuters)

By Press Trust of India: Senior Nepali Congress chief Ram Chandra Paudel was on Monday sworn in as Nepal’s third President, days after he comfortably defeated a candidate fielded by an alliance led by CPN-UML.

At a particular ceremony at Sheetal Niwas, the President’s Office, Acting Chief Justice Hari Krishna Karki administered the oath to 78-year-old Paudel.

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’, Vice-President Nanda Bahadur Pun, outgoing President Bidya Devi Bhandari, Speaker Dev Raj Ghimire, National Assembly Chairman Ganesh Prasad Timilsina and different high-ranking authorities officers had been current on the event.

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Nepali Congress senior chief Paudel was elected the third President of the nation on Thursday, defeating Subas Chandra Nembang of the CPN-UML.

Paudel replaces Bidya Devi Bhandari, whose time period ended on March 12. This is the third presidential election in Nepal for the reason that nation grew to become a republic in 2008.

President of India Droupadi Murmu congratulated President Paudel on his election.

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In a congratulatory observe, President Murmu stated that she seems ahead to working intently with Paudel in additional strengthening the bilateral partnership, the Kathmandu Post newspaper reported.

“I’m assured that beneath your in a position steerage, our large ranging cooperation shall be strengthened additional. I look ahead to working intently with you in nurturing and additional strengthening our bilateral partnership,” she wrote within the observe.

The US Embassy in Kathmandu despatched a congratulatory message to President Paudel and wished him a profitable tenure, based on Foreign Ministry sources.

Former Speaker and multiple-time minister, President Paudel has traversed a protracted political journey to make it to the nation’s highest state place. He spent over a decade in jail. He was a lawmaker six instances, a minister 5 instances, and Speaker for one time period.

Paudel had help from eight political events. Out of 52,628 weightage-based votes, Paudel secured 33,802 whereas Nembang obtained 15,518 votes.

The end result of the Presidential election got here as a aid for the federal government headed by Prime Minister ‘Prachanda’ as former premier KP Sharma Oli-led CPN-UML withdrew its help to his authorities following a rift over backing Paudel for the presidential ballot.

Oli on Monday appointed Nembang because the deputy parliamentary social gathering chief.

The time period of workplace of the President shall be 5 years from the date of election and a person may be elected for the publish for less than two phrases.

Although the publish of President is essentially ceremonial, Nepal’s political events have recently proven a rising curiosity within the publish owing to the discretionary powers the Constitution accords to the publish.

Born on October 14, 1944, in Bahunpokhari in a middle-class farmers’ household, Paudel joined politics on the age of 16. He grew to become the founding central member of the Nepal Students’ Union, the scholar wing of the Nepali Congress, in 1970.

Paudel was appointed Vice president of the Nepali Congress (banned) Tanhu district committee in 1980. He was elevated to the social gathering’s central working committee in 1987 and headed its publicity committee. He grew to become General Secretary in 2005, Vice President in 2007 and performing president of the social gathering in 2015.

He performed an lively function within the Satyagraha of 1985, People’s Movement half I of 1990 and People’s Movement half II of 2006. He spent 12 years in jail combating towards the autocratic Panchayat regime.

Paudel was elected to the House of Representatives from Tanhu district for the primary time in 1991. Thereafter, he was constantly elected from Tanhu for six consecutive phrases.

He was appointed Minister for Local Development in May 1991 and have become Agriculture Minister in 1992. Paudel served as Speaker from December 1994 to March 1999. He served as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Home and Minister for Information and Communication from 1999 to 2002.

Paudel served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Peace and Reconstruction from 2007 to 2008. He was elected Parliamentary Party chief of the Nepali Congress and chief of the primary Opposition in Parliament from 2008 to 2013.

He was honoured with the ‘Order of the Rising Sun’ award from the Government of Japan in 2020. He has authored over a dozen books primarily about democracy, socialism and agriculture. He has additionally written dozens of articles in several newspapers and served as a journalist for a short interval.

Paudel has acquired Masters’ Degree in Arts with Nepali language as a serious topic and has additionally accomplished Shastri or Bachelors’ Degree in Sanskrit.

He is married to Sabita Paudel and so they have 4 daughters and a son.

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Mar 13, 2023