Sher Bahadur Deuba
Sher Bahadur Deuba is a Nepalese politician, current Prime Minister of Nepal since July 13, 2021.
He previously held this position from 1995 to 1997, from 2001 to 2002, from 2004 to 2005, and from 2017 to 2018. He is also been the current president of the Nepali Congress since 2016.In 1991, he was elected to the House of Representatives of Nepal and served as Minister of the Interior in the cabinet led by Girija Prasad Koirala. This cabinet was dissolved and Deuba became prime minister after Man Mohan Adhikari tried to dissolve parliament again in 1995. His second term began in July 2001 after the resignation of Girija Prasad Koirala. King Gyanendra removed Deuba in October 2002. He was later restored to the office on June 4, 2004. He was again removed from office on February 1, 2005, and detained on corruption charges following a coup, and was released on 13 February 2006.
In August 2016, Deuba and Pushpa Kamal Dahal agreed to form a rotating government led by the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and the Nepalese Congress for nine months each. He was sworn in as prime minister for a fourth term on June 7, 2017.
On July 12, 2021, the Supreme Court ordered the appointment of Deuba as prime minister within 28 hours, and the next day he was appointed by President Bidhya Devi Bhandari as Prime Minister.
Early life
Deuba was born on June 13, 1946, in Ashigram, a village in Dadeldhura district, one of the most remote areas in western Nepal. He studied at Ashigram Primary School and later Mahendra Upper Secondary School and Sitaram Upper Secondary School in Doti. After completing his SLC, he was admitted to the Tri-Chandra College in Kathmandu.
He registered with the London School of Economics (LSE) in 1989, under the category of "research fee" which gave him access to the LSE library and having a teacher assigned for general guidance, but not for taking classes. His teacher was Fred Halliday and he was assigned to complete some work on parliamentary democracies, however, Deuba never published any work on the LSE. He left school in 1990.
Family Background
The family of Sher Bahadur Deuba, who lived in the Pashya Gurkha area of Dadeldhura district, is known as the Thakuri Deuba family in the Dadeldhura area. Only married to Doti Pachanali, Lulani Mall, Doti Bogtani Bam, and Bogati Rajwar. During the reign of Doti, the "Pashyagarkha region" of Dadeldhura was under his control. Ganyap Lato (Ganesh) and Ashigram Kedar are the deities of the Chandravanshi and Kashyap tribes.
According to information, Kusal Singh Deuba Rajwar became famous during the Doti reign the eldest of the two sons is Goman Singh Deuba Rajwar and the youngest is Bahadur Singh Deuba Rajwar. The eldest son of Goman Singh Deuba Rajwar is Udaisingh Deuba Rajwar and the son of Udai Singh Deuba Rajwar is Prasad Singh Deuba Rajwar. Prasad Singh Deuba Rajwar's two wives (Dadeldhura Ganeshpur Maroda's Mallakulki daughter Dhanadebi (Malla) Deuba and Doti BogtanSher Bahadur Deuba, Lok Bahadur Deuba, Ganesh Bahadur Deuba, Prem Bahadur Deuba, Lalit Bahadur Deuba and Bal Bahadur Deuba were born with three sons each.
Among these six brothers, the eldest son Sher Bahadur Deuba has become a successful personality in politics and one of the sons of Sher Bahadur Deuba is Jaybird Deuba. Sher Bahadur's nephew Shiva Bahadur Deuba is serving as a senior officer in the Nepal Army as a popular officer. Bhan Bahadur Deuba (Bhanu Deuba), son of Myla Lok Bahadur Deuba, is the PA (personal) secretary of Sher Bahadur Deuba.
Fearless, Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba niskapati feelings and a great person to be a successful major political party of his ancestors, biracial full, epic, March song dhamari Experts believe that the Deuba clan was also successful in preserving its pride and history. The Deubahs are spread in Ruwakhola, Kumaon Bandalu, Pithoragarh, Sor, Chandani, and Doti Gadsera Deuwan areas of Dadeldhura, numbering about 500 families (200 in Kumaon area, 150 in Doti Gadsera Deuwan area, and 150 in Ruwakhola area). There are Indian Army officers, doctors, and engineers in Kumaon.
In Nepal, Sher Bahadur Deuba, a member of his clan, is proud to be the country's prime minister.
Political career
Beginnings and the first term
Deuba began her political career as a student and with others founded the Nepal Students Union, a student political wing of the Nepali Congress. From 1971 to 1980, he served as president of said student wing. During the 1960s and 1970s, Deuba was imprisoned on and off for nine years for working against the Panchayat system.
He was an activist behind the 1990 Nepalese revolution that brought down the Panchayat system and ushered in multi-party democracy.
In the 1991 parliamentary elections, he was elected to the Nepalese House of Representatives for the Dadeldhura district and served as Interior Minister in the cabinet led by Girija Prasad Koirala. After Koirala dissolved parliament and his government was defeated in the 1994 parliamentary elections, Deuba was elected as the parliamentary leader of the Nepali Congress party.
After Man Mohan Adhikari tried to dissolve parliament in 1995, which was deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, Deuba was appointed prime minister and led a coalition with the National Democratic Party.
In 1996 he signed the Mahakali Treaty with the Government of India on the development of the Mahakali river basin. His administration, during which the Maoist insurgency began, fell in March 1997 and was succeeded by Lokendra Bahadur Chand, who led a minority coalition government.
Second term
Following Girija Prasad Koirala's resignation as Prime Minister, Deuba defeated Sushil Koirala to become Parliamentary Leader of the Nepalese Congress and was appointed as Prime Minister for the second time on July 26, 2001. He became Prime Minister shortly after the massacre. real and during the height of the Maoist insurgency, and soon announced a ceasefire with the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist).
In August 2001, he started peace talks with the Maoists, but after the Maoists withdrew from the talks and attacked the army in November 2001, Deuba declared a state of emergency, and the CPN (m) was included as a terrorist organization.
At the beginning of 2002, Deuba requested the dissolution of the parliament in order to hold new elections. That same year, he founded the Nepali Congress (Democratic) party, after being expelled by the Nepali Congress for ignoring the party's central committee instructions not to renew the state of emergency.
In October 2002, King Gyanendra dismissed what he and his cabinet for incompetence after he sought to postpone the elections and was replaced by a new government headed by Lokendra Bahadur Chand.
The third term
In July 2005, he was sentenced to two years in prison on corruption charges but was subsequently released on February 13, 2006, after the anti-corruption body that convicted him was outlawed. After two governments in just two years were reinstated Deuba as prime minister by King Gyanendra on June 4, 2004. A year later, after 2005 coupled with King, who suspended the constitution and assumed direct authority, Deuba and members of his cabinet were placed under house arrest.
In September 2007, Deuba dissolved the party Nepali Congress (Democratic) and rejoined the Nepali Congress.
Elections to the Constituent Assembly
In the Constituent Assembly elections held on April 10, 2008, the Nepalese Congress nominated Deuba as its candidate for the Dadeldhura and Kanchanpur districts. He won in both districts and resigned his seat in Kanchanpur, where he was replaced by Harish Thakulla of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), whom he defeated in the general elections, after a by-election.
In the subsequent vote to choose a new prime minister, which was held in the Constituent Assembly on August 15, 2008, Deuba was nominated as a candidate for the Nepalese Congress but was defeated by Pushpa Kamal Dahal of the PCUN (m). Deuba received 113 votes, while Dahal received 464.
In 2009, after the fall of the Dahal-led government and the poor health of party chair Girija Prasad Koirala, Deuba ran his candidacy to become the parliamentary leader of the Nepali Congress in an attempt to become prime minister again but was defeated. by Ram Chandra Poudel.
The Fourth term
In August 2016, Deuba reached an agreement with Pushpa Kamal Dahal to lead a rotating government led by the PCUN (m) and the Nepalese Congress for nine months each before the general elections at the end of 2017. According to the agreement, Deuba was sworn in as prime minister for a fourth term on June 7, 2017. After the death of Sushil Koirala, Deuba was elected president of the Nepali Congress at the thirteenth general convention of the party, defeating his rival and interim party president Ram Chandra Poudel, receiving almost 60% of the votes cast.
On 17 October 2017, all ministers of the UCPN (m) left the cabinet after forming an electoral alliance with the Communist Party of Nepal ( Marxist-Leninist Unified) in preparation for the parliamentary elections and revoked support for the Deuba government. Resigned on 15 February 2018 and Khadga Prasad Oli, leader of the CPN (MLU), the largest party in the 2017 elections, became prime minister.
The Fifth term
On July 12, the constitutional branch of the Supreme Court was formed to hear the judicial decrees against the dissolution of the House of Representatives filed by the opposition alliance; the Supreme Court declared that President Bhandari's decision to dissolve the House of Representatives on the recommendation of Prime Minister Oli was illegal and ordered the appointment of Deuba as Prime Minister within 28 hours, legitimizing her previous claim. On May 21, 2021, after Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli lost a vote of no confidence in the House of Representatives, the opposition alliance formed by the Nepali Congress, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), the Madhav faction Kumar Nepal of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) and the Upendra Yadav faction of the People's Socialist Party, Nepal asked President Bidhya Devi Bhandari to appoint Deuba as Prime Minister, according to article 76 (5) of the Constitution of Nepal presenting the signatures of the majority members of the House of Representatives to support the demand for a new government. The president denied the request, arguing that neither Deuba nor Oli could be appointed prime minister after Oli also claimed to be re-elected as prime minister. The chair also dissolved the lower chamber for the second time in five months and called new elections in late November.
President Bhandari appointed Deuba as prime minister in accordance with Article 76 (5) of the Constitution of Nepal and was sworn in for a fifth term on July 13, 2021.
Personal life
He is married to Arzu Rana Deuba and has a son named Jaiveer Singh Deuba.
In November 2016, the Jawaharlal Nehru University in India conferred an honorary doctorate on Deuba.
