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Ram Chandra Poudel Biography: Age, Career, Family and More

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Date of birth14 October 1944

Age78 Years

BirthplaceSatiswara village, Bahunpokhari, Tanahun district, Nepal

ProfessionPolitician; Writer

NationalityNepali

Marital statusMarried

SpouseSavita Poudel

FamilySon - Chintan; Daughters - Sharmila, Sangya, Anugya, Awagya; Parents - Durga Prasad Poudel and Rishi Maya Poudel

Ram Chandra Poudel Biography

Ram Chandra Poudel is a senior Nepali politician, writer and the third President of Nepal. With a political career spanning six decades, he has held roles从

Early life and background

Ram Chandra Poudel was born on 14 October 1944 in Satiswara village, Bahunpokhari, in the Tanahun district of Nepal. He grew up in a family headed by Durga Prasad Poudel and Rishi Maya Poudel and has four younger sisters. Poudel completed his higher education at Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, earning a Sastri (bachelor’s) degree in Sanskrit literature in 1967 and a master’s degree in Nepali language in 1970.

Poudel entered politics as a teenager, becoming active in student movements and democratic activism in the 1960s. He held student leadership posts including the presidency of Saraswati College Student Union and founding roles in campus-level organizations, and he founded the Nepal Student Union in 1970.

Career

Poudel’s public life has been defined by steady progression through party and state roles. He began building his party credentials in the 1970s with positions in the Nepali Congress Tanahun District Committee, moving from member to vice president and later to district-level leadership of multi-party campaigning efforts.

Through the 1980s and 1990s he took on national-level communications and publicity responsibilities for the Nepali Congress, including coordinator and later president of the party’s publicity bodies. He won his first parliamentary seat from Tanahun Constituency No. 1 in 1991 and was appointed Minister for Local Development and Agriculture that same year, serving until 1994.

Poudel continued to represent Tanahun in successive parliaments. In December 1994 he was elected speaker of the lower house (Pratinidhi Sabha), a post he held until March 1999. In 1999 he served as Deputy Prime Minister with responsibility for Home and Communications and remained active in parliamentary politics through the early 2000s.

During the mid-2000s he took on organisational leadership within the Nepali Congress, including general secretary of the party’s central committee and coordinator of its Peace Secretariat. He served as Minister for Peace and Reconstruction from 2007 to 2008 and later as vice president of the party’s central committee.

Poudel was repeatedly returned to the House of Representatives from Tanahun Constituency No. 2 in several elections, and in June 2009 he became the Nepali Congress parliamentary party leader. He remained a prominent figure in party leadership and parliamentary affairs through the 2010s and into the 2020s.

In the national presidential contest held in March 2023, Poudel was elected the third President of Nepal. He succeeded Bidya Devi Bhandari after securing a majority of votes from members of parliament and provincial assemblies.

Public profile

Poudel has combined political life with writing. He is the author of books and numerous articles and editorials on society and politics; published works named in his record include Journey of Faith (1996) and Socialism – In New Context (2012). His commentary and scholarship have been recognised with awards, including the Mahendra Bikram Shah Prize in 1987 for an article on human rights in Nepal and the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun from Japan in 2020 for efforts to strengthen Nepal–Japan relations.

His long career has also included periods of imprisonment totaling many years and involvement in contentious intra-party and national politics. He has been credited with playing a mediation role during the peace process in the mid-2000s and remained a significant figure in Nepali public life across multiple political movements.

Personal life

Poudel is married to Savita Poudel; the couple married in 1960 and have five children: one son, Chintan, and four daughters, Sharmila, Sangya, Anugya and Awagya. He is commonly known by the nickname Ram Chandra Dai. Physically, he is described as approximately 173 cm tall and weighing around 65 kg, with black eyes and salt-and-pepper hair.

Latest updates

In November 2022 Poudel was elected as a member of the lower house from Tanahun Constituency No. 2. On 9 March 2023 he was sworn in as President of Nepal, having won a majority of parliamentary and provincial assembly votes in that election. His long career continues to make him a visible elder statesman within Nepali politics.

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Recent Work

President of Nepal

Elected as the third President of Nepal on 9 March 2023 after securing parliamentary and provincial assembly votes.

2023
Member of Parliament, Tanahun Constituency No. 2

Elected to the lower house in November 2022.

2022
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Career Highlights

  1. Founder of Nepal Student Union (1970)
  2. Minister for Local Development and Agriculture (1991–1994)
  3. Speaker of the Pratinidhi Sabha (1994–1999)
  4. Deputy Prime Minister with Home and Communications portfolio (1999–2002)
  5. Minister for Peace and Reconstruction (2007–2008)
  6. Third President of Nepal (from 9 March 2023)
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