Man Mohan Adhikari

Man Mohan Adhikari ( Nepali: मनमोहन अधिकारी, Manmohan Adhikari; born June 20, 1920 in Lazimpat; † 26 April 1999 in Kathmandu ) was a Nepalese politician and Prime Minister of his country's 1994 until 1995.

Youth

Adhikari was born in Lazimpat, a village near the Nepalese capital Kathmandu, and spent his childhood in Biratnagar. In 1938 he went to Varanasi in India to study at the Banaras Hindu University.

Political career

In 1942 he took, like many other politicians also, at the Quit India movement and was therefore part of arrested with other politicians from the British colonial masters. Because of his political beliefs, he lived many years in exile, mostly in China and India, where he joined the Communist Party of India. He also spent 15 years in Gefangenschaftm partly in Nepal during the reigns of the kings Tribhuvan, Mahendra, and Birendra, in part with the British. After 1949, the Communist Party of Nepal co-founded, he became its Secretary General in 1953.

Election program

Man Mohan Adhikari sat a series of social reforms to the destination, especially land reform, the increase in the political participation of minorities, the emancipation of women, the prohibition of child labor, a village project to eradicate poverty in the country, as well as a minimum pension.

Reign

In 1994, Adhikari was elected at the age of 73 years as Prime Minister of Nepal. With his victory, he urged his four years younger cousin Girija Prasad Koirala, with whom he had been during the reign of King Birendra together in exile from office. Through his election victory and the dismissal of the pro- Indian oriented predecessor India feared a strengthening of the influence of China in the region.

In the period from 1994 to 1995 Adhikari was Prime Minister of Nepal for nine months. He was the chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist-Leninist) (CPN - UML ) and the only democratically elected Prime Minister of Nepal that party. During his tenure as head of government, the construction of the Arun III dam by former World Bank chief Paul Wolfowitz was rejected. This should be funded by Germany, which used the resources freed up for other projects in Nepal. Furthermore, he pushed for some reforms, such as the build- your-own -village program. In addition to his reign began a comprehensive cooperation with Mongolia, which he agreed at a meeting in Ulaanbaatar with the former Mongolian Prime Minister Puntsagiin Dschasrai.

His reign ended after the Nepali Congress Party ( Nepali Congress Party, NCP ) presented a vote of no confidence against his minority government. Then asked King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Adhikari Dev, dissolve parliament. This step had to be undone after an action before the Supreme Court of Nepal. The king appointed the Chairmen of NCP, Sher Bahadur Deuba, Prime Minister. This formed a coalition of his own party, the Friendship Party and the National Democratic Party.

Political activity after the reign

Even after his tenure Adhikari was committed to the emancipation of women

Death

Adhikari died on 26 April 1999 at the age of 78 years in Kathmandu to a myocardial infarction, after he had lain for seven days in a hospital in Kathmandu in a coma. Shortly before his death, which overtook him during the election campaign for the planned election in May, he was one of the most popular politicians of Nepal and was considered a favorite for the elections to the prime minister. He was given a state funeral - as the second politician after Ganesh Man Singh. At his funeral, which took place at the holy Bagmati River, it proved more than 200,000 people last respects. Throughout the country, the flags were lowered to half mast. Madhav Kumar Nepal After his death, continued the party.

Classification

He was one of the few democratic integration figures of Nepal.