Bidhya Devi
Bhandari is 54 years old and has been a champion of women’s rights
and led protests that ended the centuries-old Nepalese monarchy.
Bidhya Devi
Bhandari made history in Nepal. She has become the first women to
rule the country. But that's not all. She is a communist who has been
campaigning for a very long time in favor of women's rights.
She has
risen to power Wednesday after her Unified Marxist-Leninist (UML)
party garnered 327 votes in parliament against her opponent's 214.
Bhandari is
among the politicians who pushed to secure their rights under the new
constitution adopted last month that requires that a new president be
named.
The
communist female leader became a leading political figure after her
husband, Madan Bhandari, was killed in a car accident in 1993, which
has remained mostly unexplained as circumstances surrounding the
incident are dubious. He was the leader of the communist party.
Bhandari has
now become only the second president since the Himalayan country
became a republic after ending the centuries-old monarchy.
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