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Kathmandu, August 15 - Chairman of the CPN-Maoist Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has been elected as the prime minister of the federal democratic republic of Nepal.The constituent assembly this evening announced that Prachanda has been choosen as the prime minister after majority of the lawmakers voted against NC leader Sher Bahadur Deuba. Prachanda has secured majority votes in the CA, chairman Subash Chandra Nembang announced. According to him, Prachanda got 464 votes.NC leader Deuba lost the election as he failed to garner majority votes in the constituent assembly. According to election officials, Deuba got only 113 votes in the 594-member CA. 551 members took part in today’s voting.Prachanda have enough support in the CA to be handed the reins of government after the CPN-UML and Madhesi Janadhikar Forum among other fringe parties supported Prachanda in the race.Born into a poor farming family, Prachanda was driven to politics by the extreme poverty he witnessed in rural Nepal. The school teacher-turned-revolutionary Prachanda whose party is still blacklisted by the United States, led the Maoists in a decade-long insurgency before signing the peace deal with mainstream political parties in 2006.Kathmandu, August 15 - Chairman of the CPN-Maoist Pushpa Kamal Dahal... more
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