Ram Raja Prasad Singh

Ram Raja Prasad Singh ( Nepali: राम राजा प्रसाद सिंह; * 1936; † 12 September 2012 in Kathmandu, Nepal ) was a Nepalese politician from minority ethnic Madhesi.

Life

He was sentenced in 1985 for a series of bombings, which claimed a total of eight dead death. In his exile in India Singh admitted later his involvement. He was pardoned in 1990 and returned to Nepal.

In 2008, after the abolition of the monarchy in the country, the non-party and yet politically insignificant Singh was proposed by the Maoists in the country 's presidential candidate. But he was defeated on 21 July 2008 in the second ballot the candidate of the Nepali Congress Party, Ram Baran Yadav.