UCPN (Maoist) has expanded its central committee to 149 members, adding altogether 29 leaders from dissident faction led by Baburam Bhattarai faction in a bid to settle the party dispute.
Dr. Baburam Bhattarai is one of the powerful politician of Nepal who was the 35th Prime Minister of Nepal from August 2011 to March 2013. As a way out of the political deadlock since the dissolution of the first Nepalese Constituent Assembly in May 2012, he was then replaced by Chief Justice Khil Raj Regmi to head an interim government that should hold elections by 21 June 2013. He is a senior Standing Committee Member and vice chairperson of Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). His party started People's War in Nepal (as self proclaimed by Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)) in 1996 that had hug impact for the change of the political system in Nepal. The decade long civil war which claimed life of more than 17,000 Nepalese had a major role in transformation of Nepal from a monarchy into a republic. He was elected to the Constituent Assembly from Gorkha in 2008 and became Finance Minister in the cabinet formed after the election. His role as a Finance Minister was widely praised without doubt by huge population. Although he is criticized by lot of people for his controversial relation in indian establishment. His bold role in widening the roads and streets of kathmandu has been widely praised.
