KP Oli appointed Prime Minister for fourth time

By TRN Online, Kathmandu, July 14: President Ramchandra Paudel has appointed KP Sharma Oli to the post of Prime Minister.

President Ramchandra Paudel appointed Oli, a member of the House of Representatives, as per Article 76 (2) of the Constitution of Nepal, read a press release issued by the Office of the President on Sunday.

Following the expiration of the deadline at 5:00 pm, President Paudel has appointed Oli, Chairperson of the CPN (UML) as the Prime Minister this evening. 

This is the fourth time Oli has become the Prime Minister of Nepal. 

Oli was appointed PM for the third time in May 2021. He became PM for the first time on Oct 12, 2015, and a second time on Feb 15, 2018. 

The formation process of a new government was started after the then Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' lost a majority of the parliament on Friday. For which the CPN-UML had decided to join hands with the main opposition, the Nepali Congress.

Short Bio of PM Oli

The Chairperson of the CPN (UML) KP Sharma Oli has been in a life of struggle for the last 71 years. His real name is Khadga Prasad Oli, however, in politics, he is known as KP Oli. Those who love him call him 'KP Ba' that is father KP while some others remark him as being a 'leader who often utters proverbs.'

Leader Oli has undergone a 14-year-long life in prison for political reasons during the party-less Panchayat system. He has been head of the government of the country for three times. As a member of the then-banned political party, Oli's political life grew out of the Jhapa movement in 1970.

Leader Oli was born in 2008 BS to a farmer family at Iwa Village of Aathrai in Terhathum district. He was brought up by his grandmother Ram Maya Oli as his mother died when he was four years old.

Oli's family migrated to Jhapa in 1964 and within three years of arrival here, he joined the Marxist Study Group, particularly due to his inquisitive attitude toward social injustice and inequality. The Group was led by Ram Nath Dahal, who was later arrested and shot dead at Sukhani forest in the course of prison transfer.

Within two years of his joining the Group, Oli became w whole-time politics and got membership of Nepal Communist Party within a year in 1970. He was arrested just after he got an NCP membership and in the consecutive four years after that he was arrested 10 times.

In 1974, Oli was arrested along with other revolutionaries for spearheading the Jhapa movement because the Jhapa struggle committee was formed under Oli's leadership to fight for justice and equality.

After 14 years in prison, Oli was released in 1988. While in jail, Oli was kept as the founding member of the Nepal Communist Party (Marxist Leninist), which is now the CPN (UML). Following his release, the NCP deputed him to initiate a struggle against the autocratic Panchayat system in the Lumbini area. Following the success of the People's Movement I, Oli became the chief of the ML's youth wing Democratic National Youth Association, and when the CPN (Marxist) and CPN (ML) merged and became CPN (UML), Oli became the central committee member.

Oli became Home Minister in 2051 BS in the Manmohan Adhikari government, the first elected communist government in the country. After the success of People's Movement II, In 2063 BS, he was deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister.

Oli was elected the party chair in 2071 BS and then in 2072, he became the Prime Minister of Nepal. Then in 2074, he again became the Prime Minister with support from the CPN (Maoist Center). Oli was elected party chair for the second time in 2078 BS.