Bharat Mohan Adhikari ( ne, भरतमोहन अधिकारी) (4 May 1936 – 2 March 2019) was a

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...

i politician and freedom fighter. He became the Minister of Finance of Nepal in the 1994-95 government of Prime Minister

Man Mohan Adhikari Man Mohan Adhikari (Magi) ( ne, मन मोहन अधिकारी 9 June 1920 – 26 April 1999) was the 31st Prime Minister of Nepal from 1994 to 1995, representing the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist). He is the ...

. He was the first communist Finance Minister who championed the "Afno Gaun Afai Banau" (; Develop our own village) campaign. He also served as the deputy prime minister of Nepal in the Deuba cabinet (2004–05), which was later dissolved by King Gyanendra. Although a central figure of the CPN-UML, he was considered to have held more moderate views.

Health and death

In 2012, he was at the Medanta Medicity Hospital in

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for suspected

valvular heart disease Valvular heart disease is any cardiovascular disease process involving one or more of the four valves of the heart (the aortic and mitral valves on the left side of heart and the pulmonic and tricuspid valves on the right side of heart). These ...

, but was not treated for the same. He died on 2 March 2019 from

multiple organ failure Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) is altered organ function in an acutely ill patient requiring medical intervention to achieve homeostasis. Although Irwin and Rippe cautioned in 2005 that the use of "multiple organ failure" or "multisy ...

stemming from a severe case of

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* /www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwQnKNHEkA4 Bharat Mohan Adhikari talks to Nepali Headlineson

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Health and death

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