Bal Chandra Poudel

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Bal Chandra Poudel
बालचन्द्र पौडेल
Personal details
Born (1959-06-22) 22 June 1959 (age 65)
Laharepauwa, Rasuwa, Kingdom of Nepal
Political partyNepali Congress
Known for1979 Nepalese student protests[1]
People's Movement 1990[2]
People's Movement 2006[2]

Bal Chandra Poudel (Nepali: बालचन्द्र पौडेल; born 8 Asaar 2016 B.S.) is a Nepali Politician from the Nepali Congress party. He was Party President for the district of Rasuwa for several decades.

Poudel spent most of his youth in prison fighting against the Panchayat regime.[2] He contested several parliamentary elections representing Nepali Congress but lost it all times: one in 1991, against popular leader Ram Krishna Acharya; a founding member of Rastriya Prajatantra Party.

  1. ^ Brown, T. Louise. The Challenge to Democracy in Nepal: A Political History. London: Routledge, 1995. p. 90
  2. ^ a b c "Asian Centre for Human Rights". achrweb.org. Archived from the original on 15 October 2016. Retrieved 26 October 2017.