Ram Chandra Poudel

Ram Chandra Poudel or Ram Chandra Paudel (Nepali:राम चन्द्र पौडेल) is a Nepalese politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister and Speaker of the House of Representatives of Nepal. He is a member of the Nepali Congress.

In the 2008 Constituent Assembly election he was elected from the Tanahu-2 constituency, winning 18,970 votes. He was elected as the Leader of the Parliamentary Party of the Nepali Congress on June 20, 2009, securing 61 votes against Sher Bahadur Deuba, a former Prime Minister who received 48 votes.

Poudel is a senior leader and central committee member of the Nepali Congress who served as Acting President of the Nepali Congress after the death of party president Susil Koirala. He was actively involved in party organization for years as a central committee member and vice-president.

Poudel was born in September 1944 into a lower middle class farmer’s family in the remote village of Satiswara, located in the Tanahun district of western Nepal. He is married and has five children, four daughter one son.

M.A. (1970) in Nepali literature from Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, appeared in the examination while being detained the jail as an anti-panchayat leader.

SASTRI (1967) in Sanskrit literature from Tribhuvan University.

Poudel received numerous literary awards on various debates and essay competitions.

He writes frequently political and theoretical affairs which are being published in national vernaculars.

He received Mahendra Bikram Shah Prize in 1987 on an article entitled "Human Rights Condition in Nepal".

He has published the following books:

(a) Greatly affected by the unconstitutional dissolution of parliament and the dismissal of the duly elected government led by B.P. Koirala in December, 1960 and decided to be involved in the movement for the restoration of democratic rights in the early age of 16.

(b) Associated with the Armed Insurrection Movement for the restoration of democracy and seize of Bharatpur/Chitwan in 1961.

(d) Elected President of the Saraswati College Student Union in 1966.

(e) Elected as a founder President of the Gandaki Student committee in 1966.

(f) Elected as the General Secretary of the Democratic Socialist Youth League (DSYL) in 1967.

(g) Took important initiative in organizing Nepal Student Union 1970 and elected as a Senior member of the committee of the Union.

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