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| Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Nepali congress leader (Photo: Krish Dulal) |
Saturday, 5 March 2011
Nepal's former Prime Minister Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, a founding member of the Nepali Congress, has died.
Nepali officials say Mr. Bhattarai died Friday in a hospital in the capital, Katmandu.
Mr. Bhattarai served as prime minister of the Himalayan nation twice.
After democracy was restored in Nepal in 1990, Mr. Bhattarai became prime minister of the interim government, in charge of making a new constitution and holding the first election.
He served as prime minister again in 1999.
He spent nearly 14 years in prison for opposing Nepal's autocratic system.
Mr. Bhattarai was 87 years old.
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