KATHMANDU, March 7: Nepal Samajwadi Party Chairman Baburam Bhattarai has joined the Bhadrakali justice march against loan sharking.

LUMBINI, Aug 11: Chairman of Nepal Samajwadi Party (NSP) Dr Baburam Bhattarai has demanded the formation of a strong and impartial commission to investigate major corruption cases.

KATHMANDU, Aug 7: The Supreme Court (SC) has paved the way for the government authorities to investigate against the then prime ministers Madhav Kumar Nepal and Baburam Bhattarai who were in lead position during the land embezzlement case of Lalita Niwas.

KATHMANDU, August 2: The meeting of the Central Committee (CC) of the ruling Maoist Center will be held in Kathmandu from today.

KATHMANDU, Nov 11: Nepal Samajbadi Party Chairperson Dr Baburam Bhattarai spoke of the need to further strengthen the current five-party coalition for what he said was the protection of the constitution, good-governance and political stability.

KATHMANDU, Oct 24: Nepal Samajbadi Party's Chair Dr Baburam Bhattarai has claimed the existing left-democratic alliance was formed to lead the nation towards the path of good governance and prosperity by safeguarding democracy.

KATHMANDU, Oct 16: Former Prime Minister and Chairman of Nepal Socialist Party Dr Baburam Bhattarai has said the alliance with Nepali Congress is not only for election but for the country's prosperity.

KATHMANDU, Oct 3: Former Prime Minister and Nepal Samajwadi Party  Chairman Dr Baburam Bhattarai has said that he will not contest the upcoming House of Representatives elections.

KATHMANDU, August 16: The deadline for party registration for the province and House of Representatives elections to be held on November 20 is ending today.

KATHMANDU, August 5: A meeting of the newly-formed Nepal Samajwadi Party led by Baburam Bhattarai is being held tomorrow.

BIRGUNJ, July 15: Chairman of the Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP) Upendra Yadav has said that Dr Baburam Bhattarai has separated himself from the party by consensus. Speaking at a press conference in Birgunj on Friday, Chairman Yadav said that the gate was not locked for him.

KATHMANDU, July 14: At a time when Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP) is on the verge of splitting, the two factions in the party are engaged in a tug of war to pull leaders who have not disclosed their loyalty to either faction to their side.

JANAKPURDHAM, July 12: The controversy in the Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP), which was saved due to the reshuffle of ministers when a split looked imminent, has reached its climax instead of subsiding. Upendra Yadav's faction of the party is holding an extended meeting of the Central Committee in Birgunj while Baburam Bhattarai's faction has conveyed the message that the dispute within the party has reached its climax in Kathmandu.

KATHMANDU, July 12: An extended meeting of the Central Committee of Federal Council Chairman Baburam Bhattarai-led faction of Janata Samajwadi Party is being held today.

KATHMANDU, July 11: Although the Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP) has not formally split yet, the party is clearly divided into two factions. This is manifested by the fact that all leaders close to the party’s Federal Council Chairman Dr Baburam Bhattarai have stopped visiting the party office in Balkumari.

KATHMANDU, July 7: Both the establishment and rival factions of the Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP) have called separate meetings of the party’s Central Committee on the same date.

In the one-on-one talks between Bhattarai and Yadav, the two agreed to go their separate ways by resolving disputes within the party.

KATHMANDU, Feb 23: The Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP) Federal Council Chairman Dr Baburam Bhattarai has put forward two options as disagreements surfaced in the ruling coalition over the ratification of US-funded Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).

KATHMANDU, Feb 1: Chairman of the Federal Council of the Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP) Nepal, Dr Baburam Bhattarai has accused the CPN-UML leader and member of the House of Representatives, Dr Bhim Rawal, of having a fake PhD.

KATHMANDU, Oct 5: The next hearing on the Lalita Niwas land scam case against former Prime Ministers Madhav Kumar Nepal and Baburam Bhattarai has been scheduled for November 1.

KATHMANDU, August 25: Federal Council Chairman of Janata Samajwadi party (JSP), Baburam Bhattarai has claimed that the JSP will join the government within a week. Bhattarai said that the party will join the government on an inclusive basis with representation of Terai-Madhes and hills.

KATHMANDU, April 29: Former Prime Minister and Chairman of the Federal Council of Janata Samajwadi Party Baburam Bhattarai is undergoing a neuro-endocrine tumor surgery.

KATHMANDU, March 2: Former Prime Minister and Chairman of the Federal Council of Janata Samajwadi Party Baburam Bhattarai is returning home from New Delhi via Nepal Airlines flight today.

KATHMANDU, Feb 23: Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP) 's Federal Council Chairman Baburam Bhattarai was admitted to the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) in New Delhi on Tuesday for treatment.

KATHMANDU, Feb 22: Former Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai, is undergoing medical treatment on Monday at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences in New Delhi.

KATHMANDU, Feb 21: Former Prime Minister and Chairman of the Federal Council of Janata Samajwadi Party Baburam Bhattarai is traveling to New Delhi, India for medical treatment. He is leaving for New Delhi today via a Nepal Airlines flight.

KATHMANDU, Jan 19: Chairperson of the Federal Council of Janata Samajbadi Party Nepal, Dr Baburam Bhattarai has called for relocating the federal capital from Kathmandu.

KATHMANDU, Dec 27: Former Prime Minister Baburam Bhattara has accused Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli of pushing the country back toward regression by dissolving the House of Representatives (HoR).

KATHMANDU, Dec 20: Leaders of various opposition parties have termed Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s move to dissolve parliament unconstitutional.

KATHMANDU, Oct 24: Former Prime Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai and his spouse Hisila Yami have tested positive for coronavirus.

KATHMANDU, Oct 21: Speaking at a virtual meeting of the First Conference of Nepal-China Belt and Road Cooperation of Political Parties organized by International Department of CPC, China in collaboration with Friends of Silk Road Club Nepal, former Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai has said that the Trans-Himalayan Railway project under Belt and Road Initiative could be an economic and geopolitical game-changer for Nepal. He also said that the two countries must work together to enhance economic cooperation.

KATHMANDU, Oct 20: Dr Baburam Bhattarai has been named the chairman of the federal council of Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP).

Four governments and four new decisions in the past eight years, Budhi Gandaki Project stands nowhere close to starting the construction works yet.

KATHMANDU, May 8: Former prime minister Baburam Bhattarai has said that the COVID-19 pandemic should be taken as an opportunity to rebuild the country's economy.

KATHMANDU, Feb 27: Former Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai, who is also the federal council chairman of the Samajwadi Party, has said that there was no ill-intention involved in the decision made by his government to transfer the ownership of Nepal Trust lands at Matatirtha, Mahadevsthan, Satungal, Ichangu among other areas to various individuals.

KATHMANDU, Feb 15: The Supreme Court on Friday issued show-cause notices to the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) and other government agencies concerned seeking their explanations for not prosecuting former prime ministers Madhav Kumar Nepal and Baburam Bhattarai in the high-profile Lalita Niwas land scam.

KATHMANDU, Feb 13: A writ petition has been filed at the Supreme Court Wednesday challenging the decision of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) to spare former prime ministers Madhav Kumar Nepal and Baburam Bhattarai from corruption charges in connection with the Lalita Niwas land grab scam.

KATHMANDU, Jan 22: Chairman of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Pushpa Kamal Dahal has urged the Chairman of Samajbadi Party Nepal and his former colleague Dr Baburam Bhattarai and a senior leader of the same party Ashok Rai to join his party instead of being role less in their party.

KATHMANDU, Nov 15: Baburam Bhattarai, the federal council chairman of the Samajwadi Party Nepal (SPN), has said his party should quit the government if the government continued to ignore calls for constitutional amendment.

KATHMANDU, Sept 6: Former prime minister Baburam Bhattarai has urged Dalits to renounce Hinduism, describing it as the source of atrocities being committed against the so-called untouchables in the name of the caste system.

KATHMANDU, Sept 5: Chairperson of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Pushpa Kamal Dahal said that his party would try its best to implement the constitution.

KATHMANDU, Aug 23: Socialist Party Nepal's Federal Council Chair Dr Baburam Bhattarai has insisted that Dalit community should unite for a guarantee of further rights by institutionalizing the achieved ones.

KATHMANDU, Aug 22: Samajbadi Party Nepal Chairman duo Baburam Bhattarai and Upendra Yadav held a meeting with Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Thursday.

KATHMANDU, May 4: The Federal Socialist Forum Nepal (FSFN) and Naya Shakti Nepal have agreed to merge their parties on Monday (May 6).

KATHMANDU, May 2: A party merger deal between the ruling Federal Socialist Forum Nepal (FSFN) and the Baburam Bhattarai-led Naya Shakti Party has stalled, with the former declining to quit the government as demanded by the latter.

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RUKUM, Feb 21: Former Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai has stressed on the need to strengthen the local units in order to effectively implement the federal system.

Naya Shakti Nepal Coordinator and former Prime Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai have said the incumbent government has failed to take headways as per the people's expectations.

KATHMANDU, Dec 26: Pushpa Kamal Dahal, co-chairperson of Nepal Communist Party, said that it would take time to develop a democratic system and values as the country took its course towards development and prosperity.  Dahal defended the government's slow-start as he admitted "certain faults" within the system.

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