Baburam Bhattarai

Bhattarai was elected 36th Prime minister of Nepal.

Having been elected from UCPN (Maoist).

He was elected in support small parties including MJF (Loktantrik), MJF (Republican), TMLP, TMSP and Nepal Sadbhawana Party splinter groups.

The demands related to "nationalism, democracy, and livelihood" and included such line items as the "domination of foreign capital in Nepali industries, business and finance should be stopped", and "discriminatory treaties, including the 1950 Nepal-India Treaty, should be abrogated" (referring here to the 1950 Indo-Nepal Treaty of Peace and Friendship), and "land under the control of the feudal system should be confiscated and distributed to the landless and the homeless."

They started armed movement before the deadline to fulfill the demand given by themselves to the government.

Baburam Bhattarai (बाबुराम भट्टराई, ; born 18 June 1954), also known by his nom de guerre Laaldhwoj, is a Nepalese politician and former Prime Minister, who presently serves as leader of the Nepal Socialist Party.

Bhattarai was a long-time leading member and deputy chairman of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) prior to founding a new party, Naya Shakti Party, Nepal.

He subsequently embraced democratic socialism.

In 1996 the Maoists started the Nepalese Civil War, which had a huge impact on the political system in Nepal.

The decade-long civil war, in which more than 17,000 Nepalese died, had a major role in the transformation of Nepal from a monarchy into a republic.

On 4 February 1996, Bhattarai gave the government, led by Nepali Congress Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, a list of 40 demands, threatening civil war if they were not met.

In late 2004 or early 2005, the relations between Prachanda and Bhattarai cooled down.

This was reportedly due to disagreement on power sharing inside the party.

Bhattarai was unhappy with the consolidation of power under Prachanda.

At one point, Prachanda expelled Bhattarai from the party, though he was later reinstated.

They later reconciled at least some of their differences.

On 22 November 2005, Prachanda and the Seven Party Alliance released a "twelve-point agreement" that expressed areas of agreement between the CPN(M) and the parties that won a large majority in the last parliamentary election in 1999.

Among other points, this document stated that a dictatorial monarchy of King Gyanendra is the chief impediment to progress in Nepal.

It claimed further that the Maoists are committed to human rights and press freedoms and a multi-party system of government.

It pledged self-criticism and the intention of the Maoists and the Seven Parties to not repeat past mistakes.

Several ceasefires have occurred over the course of the Nepalese civil war.

The move followed weeks of massive protests—the April 2006 Nepalese general strike— in Kathmandu and elsewhere that had forced King Gyanendra to give up the personal dictatorship he had established on 1 February 2005 and restore the parliament that was dissolved in May 2002.

After that, a new government was established by the Seven-Party Alliance.

The Parliament and the new government supported the ceasefire and started negotiations with the Maoists on the basis of the twelve-point agreement.

The two sides agreed that a new constituent assembly will be elected to write a new constitution, and decide the fate of the monarchy.

The Maoists wanted this process to end with Nepal becoming a republic of Nepal.

After that, and until 26 April 2006, the guerrilla leader Prachanda directed the military efforts of the CPN (M) towards establishing areas of control, particularly in the mountainous regions and western Nepal.

The 40 demands were whittled down to 24 in subsequent political negotiations.

Most recently, on 26 April 2006, Prachanda announced a ceasefire with a stated duration of 90 days.

Bhattarai was elected to the Constituent Assembly from Gorkha 1 as a Maoist candidate in 2008 and became Minister of Finance in the cabinet formed after the election.

Bhattarai became Prime Minister in 2011.

Bhattarai led the country from 29 August 2011 to 14 March 2013.

He did some exemplary works during his tenure including the expansion of ring road.

As a way out of the political deadlock since the dissolution of the first Nepalese Constituent Assembly in May 2012, he was replaced by Chief Justice Khil Raj Regmi as head of an interim government that was to hold elections by 21 June 2013.

He was a senior Standing Committee member and vice chairperson of the Maoist party until his resignation from his post and all party responsibilities on 26 September 2015.

He was until recently the Coordinator of the Naya Shakti.

On 12 July 2016, Baburam Bhattarai announced the establishment of the Naya Shakti Nepal (New Force Nepal) as a new political party under his leadership.

On 24 January, he had announced to establish a new political force.

As of 2019, he was the Chairman of the Federal Council of the newly formed Samajbadi Party, Nepal, a party formed by the merger of the Naya Shakti Party, Nepal and the Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal.

Later Samajbadi Party, Nepal merged with Rastriya Janata Party Nepal to form People's Socialist Party, Nepal.