Posted by Anup Baral May 1st, 2016 :
Prachanda (11 December 1954) is the Prime Minister of Nepal. A communist revolutionary, politician, and former guerrilla leader, he is the Chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), the largest political party, according to the election result held in 2008, in Nepal. Under his leadership, the CPN (M) launched the Nepalese Civil War on 13 FebruaPrachanda was born in Nepal's Kaski district, some 140 km west of Nepali capital Kathmandu, in a paddy field in Dhikurpokhari VDC Lewade Village. Prachanda spent much of his childhood in the Chitwan district. He received a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (BSc-Ag) from the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science (IAAS) in Rampur, Chitwan, and was once employed at a rural development project sponsored by USAID, the project site being Jajarkotry 1996, in which about 13,000 people died in fighting between the party and the government.