KATHMANDU: Former Deputy Prime Minister and Nepal Communist Party (NCP) leader Bharat Mohan Adhikari passed away this evening, doctors have announced.
Adhikari was kept on a ventilator at Hams Hospital in Dhumbarahi. Doctors at Hams Hospital announced Adhikari’s death at 9:35 pm on Saturday evening.
Former Finance Minister Adhikari was undergoing treatment at Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in the hospital. He was suffering from pneumonia.
Doctors involved in late Adhikari’s treatment said that his major organs had stopped working since Saturday afternoon.
Adhikari, who had retired from active politics in 2014, had served as a Finance Minister during the nine-month tenure of the Man Mohan Adhikari-led government in September 1994. He had then championed the much-appraised reform campaign called “Afno Gaun Afai Banau” (Make your own village).
He also introduced ‘Old Age Allowance’ for Nepali senior citizens during the 1994-95 nine-month long communist government.
He served as finance ministers for four times. Adhikari is survived by his wife and three daughters.
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