Bijay Kumar Gachhadar
Bijaya Kumar Gachhadar is a Nepalese politician and veteran leader of the Nepali Congress. He have been deputy prime minister of Nepal four times under the government of KP Oli, Madhav Kumar Nepal, Baburam Bhattarai and Pushpa Kamal Dahal. In April 2008, he won the Constituent Assembly election, 2013 with 23769 votes. Gachhadar was previously in the Madhesi people forum and Nepali Congress, and was Minister of Water Resources. Gachhadar was formally expelled from Nepali Congress in March 2008, by that time he had already joined PRF. He was subsequently appointed as Minister and sworn in on August 22, 2008.
He contributed to establish Madhav Kumar Nepal's administration, and on June 4, 2009 he was appointed as the deputy prime minister of the cabinet.
Again as per the poll in the cabinet, he was again appointed as the deputy prime minister and Ministry of Home Affair of the government led by Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai. On 16 Oct 2017 his party Nepal Democratic Forum merged with Nepali Congress. Gachhadar returns to his old party after 11 years.
