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 The deputy prime minister of Nepal ( ne, नेपालको उप-प्रधानमन्त्री) is the deputy head of government of Nepal. The deputy prime minister is second in seniority in the Council of Ministers of Nepal. The de ...

under the government of

Madhav Kumar Nepal Madhav Kumar Nepal ( ne, माधवकुमार नेपाल, ; born 6 March 1953), is a Nepalese politician and former Prime Minister of Nepal. He served as Prime Minister of Nepal from 25 May 2009 to 6 February 2011 for nearly two years. ...

, Baburam Bhattarai,

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 ...

Pushpa Kamal Dahal Pushpa Kamal Dahal ( ne, पुष्पकमल दाहाल; born 11 December 1954), also widely known by his nom de guerre Prachanda (, ; meaning "fierce"), is a Nepalese politician serving as the current Prime Minister of Nepal. He pre ...

and Sher Bahadur Deuba. He was the second vice-president of 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

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, 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

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for the first time keeping in consideration his contribution to establish

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. Again as per the poll in the cabinet, he was again appointed as the Deputy Prime minister and Minister of Home Affair in the government led by Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai. On 16 Oct 2017 his party

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merged with Nepali Congress. He was nominated Vice-president of Nepali Congress alongside

Bimalendra Nidhi Bimalendra Nidhi ( Maithili/ Nepali/Devanagari: बिमलेन्द्र निधि ) is a Nepali politician who serves as a member of the House of Representatives and a senior leader of Nepali Congress. He is the former Deputy Prime M ...

till 2021. He was suspended from

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on 5 February 2020 due to corruption charges.