Dr. Bhim Bahadur Rawal ( ne, डा.भीम बहादुर रावल) commonly known as Bhim Rawal is a Nepali politician, former Deputy Prime Minister & Defence Minister of Nepal in Second Oli cabinet. He served as the Minister of Home Affairs of Nepal in
Madhav Nepal cabinet
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. He was one of the six Deputy Prime Minister in KP Sharma Oli cabinet including
Bijay Kumar Gachhadar
Bijaya Kumar Gachhadar ( ne, बिजयकुमार गच्छदार; born February 1, 1954) is a Nepalese politician and leader of the Nepali Congress. He has served five terms as deputy prime minister of Nepal under the government o ...
,
C. P. Mainali
Chandra Prakash Mainali more commonly known as C. P. Mainali (born August 22, 1951, in Chokpur, Taplejung District) is a communist politician in Nepal and former Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal.
Political life
Jhapa revolt
In the early 1970 ...
,
Chitra Bahadur K.C.
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,
Kamal Thapa
Kamal Thapa ( ne, कमल थापा; born 4 August 1955) is a Nepalese politician belonging to Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal.
Thapa, has served as a Deputy Prime Minister and Federal Affairs and Local Development. Thapa is also the ...
and
Top Bahadur Rayamajhi
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Girija Prasad Koirala
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cabinet led by
Nepali Congress
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from 1998 - 1999. He was taken as prospective CPN-UML chairman by his cadres during
2017 Nepalese legislative election
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campaign. He lost in 10th general congress of Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) from
KP Sharma Oli
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli ( ne, खड्गप्रसाद शर्मा ओली, ; born 22 February 1952) is a Nepalese politician and former Prime Minister of Nepal. He served three terms as prime minister from 11 October 2015 to 3 Augu ...
in chairman post gaining as low as 10% vote. since then, his political future is said to be uncertain. He was proposed by Mahadev Bajgai and Supported By Dudhkala Bista for his Candidacy of party chairman.
On 18 July 2021, he had resigned as member of parliament stating he wanted to leave active politics. Still he took his resignation back which is his usual practice to keep sympathy of people continuously.
Personal life
Rawal was born in
Achham district
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, Nepal. He has a wife and two sons. He obtained both master's and bachelor's degrees from the
Tribhuwan University
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and in the 1980s became a lawyer who specialized in
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on Political Violence and the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal.
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
Cambodia
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n elections panel and later allied himself with
Madhav Kumar Nepal
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. 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
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.
In 2009 he spoke at the
Millennium Development Goals
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' meeting about least developed countries. After the meeting he addressed the ''Third UN Private Sector Forum'' regarding
poverty
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and
hunger
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and urged the
government
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and various
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Employment
The ...
s to work together in order to form
economy
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's
synergy
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History
In Christia ...
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In 2014 it was reported that he was injured in a Sharma Oli attack on a campaign trail at a
Seti
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Achham 1 (constituency)
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Nepal Communist Party
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