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Pushpa Kamal Dahal

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Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Nepali: पुष्पकमल दाहाल; born Ghanashyam Dahal, 11 December 1954), alias Prachanda (Nepali: प्रचण्ड, pronounced [prʌˈt͡sʌɳɖʌ], transl. "fierce"), is a Nepalese politician, currently serving as the Leader of the Opposition, since July 2024. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pushpa Kamal Dahal has received more than 1,062,155 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Pushpa Kamal Dahal is the 9,473rd most popular politician (up from 12,898th in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Nepal (up from 25th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Nepalese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Pushpa Kamal Dahal ranks 9,473 out of 19,576Before him are Catherine Samba-Panza, Seleucus VII Philometor, Thomas A. Hendricks, Isabella of Castile, Duchess of York, Saraha, and Ashina Xichun. After him are Bisinus, Dirk VI, Count of Holland, Edmund Stoiber, Marie of Baden-Sponheim, Lakshmi Sahgal, and Kilij Arslan IV.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Pushpa Kamal Dahal ranks 133Before him are Valery Gazzaev, Sid Meier, Philip J. Pierre, Lee Chang-dong, Morten P. Meldal, and Catherine Samba-Panza. After him are David Lee Roth, Hermann Tilke, Kengo Kuma, Giancarlo Antognoni, Anish Kapoor, and Patty Hearst.

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In Nepal

Among people born in Nepal, Pushpa Kamal Dahal ranks 19 out of 59Before him are Bhanubhakta Acharya (1814), Janaka (null), Bidhya Devi Bhandari (1961), Anuruddha (-450), Ram Chandra Poudel (1944), and Suman Pokhrel (1967). After him are Mahendra of Nepal (1920), Tribhuvan of Nepal (1906), Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909), Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (1980), Araniko (1244), and Sher Bahadur Deuba (1946).

Among POLITICIANS In Nepal

Among politicians born in Nepal, Pushpa Kamal Dahal ranks 9Before him are Prithvi Narayan Shah (1723), Birendra of Nepal (1945), Gyanendra of Nepal (1947), Ram Baran Yadav (1948), Bidhya Devi Bhandari (1961), and Ram Chandra Poudel (1944). After him are Mahendra of Nepal (1920), Tribhuvan of Nepal (1906), Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (1980), Sher Bahadur Deuba (1946), Bhimsen Thapa (1775), and Jung Bahadur Rana (1817).