C.P. Mainali
| Chandra Prakash Mainali | |
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| चन्द्र प्रकाश मैनाली | |
| Deputy Prime Minister & Minister for Women and Children | |
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Assumed office 4 November 2015 |
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| President | Bidhya Devi Bhandari |
| Prime Minister | Khadga Prasad Oli |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Chokpur, Taplejung District |
| Nationality | Nepali |
| Political party | CPN(ML) |
| Residence | Kathmandu, Nepal |
| Profession | Politician |
| Religion | Hinduism |
Chandra Prakash Mainali more commonly known as C.P. Mainali (born August 22, 1951, in Chokpur, Taplejung District) is a communist politician in Nepal. He was born to Dhanpati and Chandrakumari Mainali.
From 1965 onwards he was involved in the student movement. In 1970, Mainali joined the Communist Party of Nepal. During his years as a political activist, he had aliases ('party names') such as Jay, Subhas, Devi and Kanchan.
In 1971, Mainali was one of a group of young leaders of the Jhapa District Committee of the Communist Party of Nepal. The other main leaders of this group were Radha Krishna Mainali, Mainali's brother, and Mohan Chandra Adhikari. The group was inspired by the Naxalbari rebellion in India and its leader Charu Majumdar. In May 1971, the group initiated an armed rebellion, killing landlords and other perceived class enemies.
The leadership of the party did not approve of the methods used by the Jhapa movement, and Mainali and his fellows were now an independent grouping. The rebellion was rapidly crushed by the state forces and hundreds of its followers were killed, jailed or forced into exile. Nevertheless, the group continued to conduct clandestine political work amongst the peasants of Jhapa.
In 1975, the survivors of the Jhapa movement took the initiative to found the All Nepal Communist Revolutionary Coordination Committee (Marxist-Leninist). Other small groups merged with ANCRCC (ML). On December 26, 1978, ANCRCC (ML) organized the founding congress of the Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist). Mainali was elected general secretary of the party. CPN (ML) was an underground party, and conducted small-scale, armed activities against the regime and feudal landlords.
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