Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Nepalese politician and former prime minister
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He led a Maoist insurgency through Nepal's civil war, then traded the jungle for parliament — three times prime minister, each term ending in resignation or ouster, most recently after cycling through three coalition flips in 19 months.
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Born Ghanashyam Dahal in 1954, he took the name Prachanda after poverty in his youth pulled him toward left-wing politics. He joined the Communist Party of Nepal (Fourth Convention) in 1981, rose to general secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal) in 1989, and led the faction that became the CPN (Maoist) through the country's civil war and peace process. His party won the 2008 elections as the largest bloc, and he became prime minister that August — then resigned nine months later after the president blocked his attempt to sack the army chief. He returned in 2016 under a power-sharin…
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