Dr. Baburam Bhattarai ( Politican )

Dr. Baburam Bhattarai born in 1954 as a son to Bhoj Prasad Bhattarai and Dharma Kumari Bhattarai at Khoplang of Gorkha District was intelligent child since beginning. Inspired with his maternal uncle he developed and anti-king motive from those early days. The young boy gradually educated himself in politics and not only began to hate monarchy but also actively involved in the movement against it. Now he has proved himself as an intellectual leader of our time and earned the name of the architect of economy of Nepal being first finance minister of the government of republic of Nepal.

Bhattarai has got his early education in local school with Gurukul schooling system and later from mission school. He stood first shattering nation’s previous records as a regular student in S.L.C board. His achievement was exceptional in the sense that he broke the tradition of only the rich urban kids in the cities scoring top results in S.L.C board. Then, he joined Amrit Science Campus for I.sc. as to institutionalize his aim to be a medical doctor. But despite the doctor of human anatomy he achieved the doctor of philosophy in economy to solve the growing economic status of nation.

Due to the greatest interest in mathematics, Bhattarai was attracted to “architectural engineering”. He completed his bachelor degree in architectural engineering from Chandigarh in India. But, he realized that the theoretical knowledge is no more important until it is used in practice. His inner sense haunts him that it would not be possible to reconstruct the Nepalese society only having degrees. Then his early impression of monarchical rule in Nepal began to disturb his mind. He thought no clear about what else would be the alternative to monarchy, but was firmly republicanism.

While studying in India, he established and became the first president of All Nepal India students Union, which had intellectual circles of his time against the Panchayat system in Nepal. Along within he came to be known to Nepalese political leaders of contemporary time. Meantime, in 1980, he happened to meet with Prachanda had a distinct personality with enduring organizational experience. Even though they continue their underground movement for republic Nepal since 2052 B.S.

Bhattarai always took the soft line in party and become famous as soft-liner in party. Different political critics analyzed the relation of Bhattarai with Prachanda widening the opposite relation. But he got favour of many because of his influential role in policy making in the party. It was the policy of Bhattarai in Chunwang conference that leads the party towards soft-liner.