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Pushpa Kamal Dahal

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Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Nepali: पुष्पकमल दाहाल; born Ghanashyam Dahal, 11 December 1954), alias Prachanda (Nepali: प्रचण्ड, pronounced [prʌˈt͡sʌɳɖʌ], transl. "fierce"), is a Nepalese politician, currently serving as the Leader of the Opposition, since July 2024. He has served as the Prime Minister of Nepal on three separate occasions, from 2008 to 2009 as the first prime minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, from 2016 to 2017, and again from 2022 to 2024. Having been drawn to left-wing politics after seeing severe poverty during his youth, Dahal joined the Communist Party of Nepal (Fourth Convention) in 1981, and later became general secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal) in 1989. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pushpa Kamal Dahal is the 1,926th most popular politician (up from 9,472nd in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Nepal (up from 19th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Nepalese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Pushpa Kamal Dahal ranks 1,926 out of 19,576. Before him are Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen, Olaf II of Denmark, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Emeric, King of Hungary, Cheoljong of Joseon, and Amasis II. After him are Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Edwin Stanton, Jens Stoltenberg, Carlos Menem, Kamala Harris, and Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Pushpa Kamal Dahal ranks 19. Before him are Sócrates, Emir Kusturica, James Cameron, Jean-Claude Juncker, Jim Belushi, and Fernando Santos. After him are Mario Kempes, Dieter Bohlen, João Lourenço, Kazuo Ishiguro, Oprah Winfrey, and Serzh Sargsyan.

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In Nepal

Among people born in Nepal, Pushpa Kamal Dahal ranks 8 out of 59. Before him are Yaśodharā (-600), Maya (-600), Tenzing Norgay (1914), Mahapajapati Gotami (-600), Bidhya Devi Bhandari (1961), and KP Sharma Oli (1952). After him are Rāhula (-534), Śuddhodana (-590), Chandra Bahadur Dangi (1939), Ram Chandra Poudel (1944), Prithvi Narayan Shah (1723), and Birendra of Nepal (1945).

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Among POLITICIANS In Nepal

Among politicians born in Nepal, Pushpa Kamal Dahal ranks 4. Before him are Yaśodharā (-600), Bidhya Devi Bhandari (1961), and KP Sharma Oli (1952). After him are Śuddhodana (-590), Ram Chandra Poudel (1944), Prithvi Narayan Shah (1723), Birendra of Nepal (1945), Gyanendra of Nepal (1947), Queen Aishwarya of Nepal (1949), Jung Bahadur Rana (1817), and Ram Baran Yadav (1948).

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