Saturday, August 16, 2008

A Maoist Prime Minister in Nepal

Pushpa kamal Dahar has been elected the PM of the newly formed Nepal Government. He was voted by 464 candidates while his opponent Sher Bahadur Dueba from Nepali Congress got 113 votes. Nepal blog reports:

"In what will go on the pages of the history books as one of the most important days of Nepal, Maoist revolutionary (and leader of an outfit that was branded terrorist until two years ago) Pushpa Kamal Dahal (aka Prachanda) has been elected the Prime Minister of Nepal by a majority of votes in the Constituent Assembly..."

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