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http://www.hindu.com/2008/08/16/stories/...080100.htm

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The result of the Prime Ministerial election was announced by the Constituent Assembly (CA) Chairman Subash Nembang. “The proposal in favour of <b>Pushpa Kamal Dahal </b>[Prachanda] as the Prime Minister was supported by 464 votes,” Mr. Nembang said, “So, I announce his win as the Prime Minister.”

Fifty-four-year-old Prachanda was born to a farmer’s family in Pokhara. He got his primary education in his home town. He then went to the Kathmandu Valley for higher studies and did his ISc at the Patan Multiple Campus. Later, he graduated in agriculture from the Rampur Agriculture Campus in 1976.

<b>Mr. Dahal’s daughter Renu Dahal is also a Constituent Assembly member.</b>

Mr. Dahal’s close associate Baburam Bhattarai says Mr. Dahal chose the name Prachanda, ‘as it does not reflect any caste or religion.’ <b>Mr. Prachanda himself once said that his name Pushpa Kamal Dahal clearly indicated he was a Brahmin.</b>
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