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Member of House of Representatives of Nepal
Bhim Acharya (
Nepali
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secretary of
Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)
, is the former
Chief minister
of
Province No. 1
.
[1]
Governor
Somnath Adhikari
appointed Bhim Acharya as the chief minister as per Article 168 (1) of the
Constitution of Nepal
after He was unanimously elected parliamentary party leader of the
CPN (UML)
on 26 August 2021,
[2]
following the resignation of outgoing chief minister
Sher Dhan Rai
as both the parliamentary party leader and chief minister. He assumed the post of the
Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation of Nepal
on 25 February 2014 under
Sushil Koirala
-led government.
[3]
[4]
He is a member of the
2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly
. He won the Sunsari–6 seat in
2013 Nepalese Constituent Assembly election
from the
Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)
.
[5]
[6]
[7]
Personal life
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Bhim Acharya was born on 27 April 1959 in Toliya-6,
Dhankuta
. He is the son of Bala Prasad and Laxmi Devi Acharya. He has obtained master's degree in management.
[7]
Political career
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Acharya joined students movement in 1975. He joined
Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)
in 1979.
He won the
2008 Nepalese Constituent Assembly election
from Sunsari-6 constituency with 15,606 votes defeating Narendra Bahadur Basnet of
Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
. He was appointed as the Chief Whip of the Parliamentary Party of the
Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)
.
[7]
Bhim Acharya was elected as the leader of the CPN-UML's state-1 parliamentary party on 26 August 2021
[8]
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