Khem Raj Bhatta Mayalu is a

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ese politician. He is a member of the

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(NC) party, the successor party to

Nepali Congress (Democratic) Nepali Congress (Democratic) ( was a political party in Nepal, which was formed due to a vertical split of the original Nepali Congress. The Nepali Congress (Democratic) was led by Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, while the original was led by ...

C(D)of which he had also been a member while it existed. (The two—formerly split—parties reunified in 2007.) During the

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regime he was the general secretary of the underground leftist group Nepal Janabadi Morcha (NJM), living in exile in

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, India. After the

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, which NJM had claimed responsibility for, Mayalu received a life sentence . In the 1994 Nepalese legislative elections Mayalu was the candidate of NJM in the

Dadeldhura Dadeldhura, a part of Sudurpashchim Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district, with Dadeldhura as its district headquarters, covers an area of and had a population of 126,162 in 2001 and 142,094 in 2011. The region ...

constituency. Mayalu came second with 9966 votes; the seat was won by

Sher Bahadur Deuba Sher Bahadur Deuba ( ne, शेरबहादुर देउवा, ; born 13 June 1946) is a Nepali politician and former prime minister of Nepal. He has also been serving as the president of the Nepali Congress since 2016. Deuba has served ...

with 20701 votes. Later Mayalu joined the Nepali Congress; he won the

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3 seat in the 1999 legislative elections as a Nepali Congress candidate. He got 15574 votes. On February 23, 2001, the

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(at that time, the "Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)", and since 2009, the "Communist Party of Nepal aoist Centre) attacked Mayalu's residence in Guleriya. In total Maoists have seized 15

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s () of land belonging to Mayalu. When Sher Bahadur Deuba split away from the NC party and formed NC(D), Mayalu followed him. On October 18, 2001, Mayalu was named Minister of General Administration in Deuba's cabinet. In 2005, Mayalu participated in pro-democracy demonstrations. During a period of crack-downs on the protests, Mayalu was twice arrested, along with other protestors, on March 8 and later on May 29, 2005. It is unclear for how long he was detained.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mayalu, Khem Raj Bhatta Year of birth missing (living people) Government ministers of Nepal Living people Nepali Congress (Democratic) politicians Nepali Congress politicians from Sudurpashchim Province Nepal Janabadi Morcha politicians Nepalese exiles People sentenced to death in absentia Nepal MPs 1999–2002