Kul Bahadur Khadka (1951 – 28 July 2020) was an officer in the

Nepali Army The Nepali Army ( ne, नेपाली सेना, translit=Nēpālī Sēnā), technically the Gorkhali Army ( ne, गोरखाली सेना, translit=Gōrakhālī Sēnā, label=none; see ''Gorkhas''), is the land service branch ...

and reached the rank of

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. He was appointed as the acting chief of Army Staff by

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Prachanda 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 ...

on May 3, 2009 when he replaced Chief of Army Staff

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Rookmangud Katawal General Rookmangud Katawal is a former Nepalese Army general, who served as the Chief of Army Staff of the Nepal Army from 2006 to 2009. General Katawal has come across controversy after the then Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal unilaterally ...

, but Katawal was reinstated by

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Ram Baran Yadav Ram Baran Yadav ( mai, डा. राम वरण यादव) is a Nepali politician and physician who served as the first president of Nepal from 23 July 2008 to 29 October 2015, following the declaration of a republic in 2008. Previously h ...

on the same night. Khadka was born in 1951 in a simple family in

Lamjung Lamjung District ( ne, लमजुङ जिल्ला ), a part of Gandaki Province, is one of the 77 districts of Nepal. The district, with Besisahar as its district headquarters, covers an area of and had a population of 167,724. Lamjun ...

, West Nepal. He joined the Royal Nepalese Army in 1970 and was commissioned from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1972. Following his commissioning he went on to finish his Platoon Commander's Battle Course in

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, UK. Khadka was also a graduate of

Staff College Staff colleges (also command and staff colleges and War colleges) train military officers in the administrative, military staff and policy aspects of their profession. It is usual for such training to occur at several levels in a career. For e ...

from Camberley UK. One of Khadka's course mates was

Moshe Ya'alon Moshe "Bogie" Ya'alon ( he, משה יעלון; born Moshe Smilansky on 24 June 1950) is an Israeli politician and former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, who also served as Israel's Defense Minister under Benjamin Netanyahu from 2013 ...

, who later went on to become the Chief of IDF and is currently the Israeli Deputy Prime Minister. Khadka attended ND course in National Defense College,

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, Pakistan (August 1996 to July 1997) which is a high profile military institution (now renamed as National Defense University (NDU). One of his course mates Kaleem Saadat subsequently became Chief of Air Staff (

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). He held a Masters in Political Science from

Tribhuvan University Tribhuvan University (TU; ne, त्रिभुवन विश्वविद्यालय) is a public university located in Kirtipur, Kathmandu. Established in 1959, TU is the oldest university in Nepal. In terms of enrollment, it is ...

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