Nepal: A Doctor from Calcutta Elected as First President

by Santosh Kumar Agarwal July 21, 2008 Ram Baran Yadav, A MBBS of Calcutta Medical College and a Postgraduate from School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta, was elected as the first president of Nepal, by the re-poll held on 21st July in the Constituent Assembly by defeating his nearest rival, Maoist sponsored Ram Raja Prasad Sing by a comfortable margine of 26 votes. He polled 308 votes out of 590 votes polled in a house of 594 with four abstensions. This was the first major vote in assembly after the abolition of 240-year-old monarchy with the exit of King Gyanendra. The 61-year-old Yadav studied in Calcutta 36 years ago was in India for a total of eleven years before returning to Nepal for practice. He was also the personal physician of B.P.Koirala, the great old man of Nepal politics who has been Prime Minister of Nepal as... [read full story]