Bhim Bahadur Rawal

Bhim Bahadur Rawal (Nepali: भीम बहादुर रावल; born December 14, 1956) commonly known as Bhim Rawal is a CPN-UML presently Nepal Communist Party 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 was 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 2017 Nepalese legislative election campaign.[5] He won the election from Achham-1 defeating Bharat Swar.[6]

The Right Honourable 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
State Minister of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation
In office 1994–1995
Monarch	Birendra Bir Bikram Shah
Prime Minister	Man Mohan Adhikari
Member of Constituent Assembly of Nepal
In office 2013–2017
Constituency	Accham-1
Member of House of Representatives
Incumbent
Assumed office 2017
Constituency	Achham-1
Personal details
Born	(1956-12-14) December 14, 1956 Achham, Nepal
Political party	Nepal Communist Party

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]He has done P.h.d on Political Violence and the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal.[8]

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.[9]

Bhim Bahadur Rawal meeting the Union Home Minister, Shri P. Chidambaram of India

In 2014 it was reported that he was injured in a Sharma Oli attack on a campaign trail at a Seti-Kathmandu liaison committee.[10]

See also

• Nepal Communist Party
• KP Oli

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. "Bhim Rawal, Home Affairs". Telegraph Nepal. August 28, 2011. Archived from the original on October 9, 2011. Retrieved June 24, 2014.
8. https://ratopati.com/story/122040/2020/3/16/bhim-rawal
9. "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.
10. 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.