Bharat Mohan Adhikari | |
Native Name: | भरतमोहन अधिकारी |
Birth Date: | 4 May 1936 |
Birth Place: | Mahottari District, Kingdom of Nepal |
Death Place: | HAMS Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal |
Party: | Nepal Communist Party |
Office1: | Minister of Finance |
Term Start1: | 30 November 1994 |
Term End1: | 12 September 1995 |
Predecessor1: | Mahesh Acharya |
Successor1: | Ram Saran Mahat |
Office2: | Minister of Finance |
Term Start2: | December 1998 |
Term End2: | May 1999 |
Predecessor2: | Ram Saran Mahat |
Successor2: | Mahesh Acharya |
Office3: | Minister of Finance, Deputy prime minister (Nepal) |
Term Start3: | 2004 |
Term End3: | 2005 |
Relatives: | Man Mohan Adhikari (brother) BP Koirala(cousin) |
Bharat Mohan Adhikari (Nepali: [[:ne:भरतमोहन अधिकारी|भरतमोहन अधिकारी]]) (4 May 1936 – 2 March 2019) was a Nepali politician and freedom fighter. He became the Minister of Finance of Nepal in the 1994-95 government of Prime Minister Man Mohan Adhikari.[1] He was the first communist Finance Minister who championed the "Afno Gaun Afai Banau" (; Develop our own village) campaign.
He also served as the deputy prime minister of Nepal in the Deuba cabinet (2004–05), which was later dissolved by King Gyanendra. Although a central figure of the CPN-UML, he was considered to have held more moderate views.
In 2012, he was at the Medanta Medicity Hospital in New Delhi for suspected valvular heart disease, but was not treated for the same.[2] [3] He died on 2 March 2019 from multiple organ failure stemming from a severe case of COPD.[4]