Ram Baran Yadav

Ram Baran Yadav ( Nepali: रामवरण यादव, Rāmvaraṇ Yadav, born February 4, 1948 in Sapahi, Dhanusha district ) is a Nepalese politician. He was elected by the Constituent Assembly of Nepal on 21 July 2008 as the first President of the Republic of Nepal. His swearing-in ceremony took place two days later.

Biography

Ram Baran Yadav was born as a member of the Madhesi in the village Sapahi in Dhanusha district südnepalesischen near the Indian border. He studied medicine in Kolkata, India PhD in Chandigarh and practiced as a surgeon in Janakpur.

Since the 1960s, Yadav was politically active, and sat down in the late 1980s for the reinstatement of the multiparty system in Nepal. After the first democratic elections in 1991, Yadav was Minister of State for Health as a member of the ruling Nepali Congress party. Funded by the chairman of the Congress party, Girija Prasad Koirala, Yadav 1999 was appointed Minister of Health.

Since 2006, Yadav was working as General Secretary of the Congress Party. In the elections to the Constituent Assembly in April 2008, Yadav was elected deputy of Dhanusha.

Presidential election

After the proclamation of the Republic of Nepal on May 28, 2008, delayed the election of a new head of state. The two largest parties, the Congress Party of former Prime Minister Koirala and the Maoists, who had emerged as the strongest party in the elections to the Constituent Assembly could not agree on the formation of a unity government. As Koirala then announced his retirement, it was not possible the parties to find common candidates for governance. The Constituent Assembly then decided in July 2008 that the President and the Prime Minister shall be elected by a simple majority of the Assembly.

As a candidate of the Congress Party Yadav kicked nominated by the Maoists Antiroyalisten Ram Raja Prasad Singh and to the communist candidate Ramprit Paswan for presidential elections on 19 July 2008. In the first round Yadav missed the necessary absolute majority of the votes and won only just 13 votes more than the favored Singh.

For the second round of voting on 21 July, the Congress Party secured the support of smaller democratic parties. Yadav then won the runoff election against Singh safe with 308 of 590 votes.

Yadav was sworn in on 23 July 2008 together with his deputy Paramananda Jha at the presidential palace. Yadav takes as president mainly true representative functions.