Dr. Chandra Bhandari ( Nepali: डा. चन्द्र भण्डारी) (born Chandra Kant Bhandari, April 14, 1961, in

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-7,

Gulmi Gulmi District (), a part of Lumbini Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district, with Tamghas as its headquarters, covers an area of , had a population of 296,654 in 2001, 280,160 in 2011 and 268,597 in 2016. Introd ...

) is a Nepali politician and central member of the

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party. Bhandari a member of parliament elected from Gulmi 1 through 2022 legislative election.

Political life

Bhandari entered politics in 1976 and went on to become the general secretary of Nepal Students Union. In the 2006 revolution, he openly favored republicanism contrary to official party position. He contested the 2013 constituent assembly election from

-2 and won, defeating his long time rival

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by about 2,500 votes. He was defeated by CPN-UML candidate

in the 1999 legislative election, in the 2008 CA Election and again later in the 2017 legislative election. In the

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, he was elected as the member of the

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Education

He had achieved

master's degree A master's degree (from Latin ) is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional prac ...

in sociology and management faculty and was pursuing his PhD, as of 2013. He later completed his PhD.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bhandari, Chandra 1961 births Living people Nepali Congress politicians from Lumbini Province Nepalese Hindus 21st-century Nepalese people People from Gulmi District Members of the 2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly Nepal MPs 2022–present