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{{Short description|Nepalese politician}}
{{other uses| Bal Chandra (disambiguation)}}

{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Bal Chandra Poudel
| native_name = '''''बालचन्द्र पौडेल'''''
| native_name_lang = ne
| image =
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| nationality = Nepalese
| party = [[Nepali Congress]]
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|06|22|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Laharepauwa]], [[Rasuwa]], [[Kingdom of Nepal]]
| known_for = [[1979 Nepalese student protests]]<ref>Brown, T. Louise. ''The Challenge to Democracy in Nepal: A Political History''. [[London]]: [[Routledge]], 1995. p. 90</ref> <br> [[1990 Nepalese revolution|People's Movement 1990]]<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=http://achrweb.org/briefingpapers/Nepal-BP-0305_HTML.htm|title=Asian Centre for Human Rights|website=achrweb.org|access-date=2017-10-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161015053239/http://www.achrweb.org/briefingpapers/Nepal-BP-0305_HTML.htm|archive-date=2016-10-15|url-status=dead}}</ref> <br> [[2006 Nepalese revolution|People's Movement 2006]]<ref name="auto"/> p}}
'''Bal Chandra Poudel''' ({{lang-ne|बालचन्द्र पौडेल}}; born 8 Asaar 2016 [[Vikram Samvat|B.S.]]) is a Nepali Politician from the [[Nepali Congress]] party. He was Party President for the district of [[Rasuwa]] for several decades.

Poudel spent most of his youth in prison fighting against the Panchayat regime.<ref name="auto"/> He contested several parliamentary elections representing [[Nepali Congress]] but lost it all times: one in 1991, against popular leader [[Rastriya Prajatantra Party|Ram Krishna Acharya]]; a founding member of [[Rastriya Prajatantra Party]].

== Political career ==
Poudel entered politics in 1974 inspired by the social-democratic ideals of [[Nepali Congress]]. His political career is believed to be very honest and ideal. Poudel is well known for his keen participation in anti-panchayat movements in Nepal.<ref name="auto"/> It is believed in the district of [[Rasuwa]] that Poudel was the only one to actively involve in anti-panchayat movements and movements of civil rights in [[Nepal]] until multi party democracy was introduced.<ref name="auto"/> He actively participated in the [[People's Movement I (1990)|People's Movement I]] (Jana Aandalon) of 1990, which led to the end of the [[Panchayat (Nepal)|Panchayat system]] and the removal of the ban on political parties. Poudel stood as a candidate for the [[Parliament of Nepal]] from [[Rasuwa]] in 2051 B.S.<ref name=chamber>{{Cite web| url = http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/2386_94.htm | title = NEPAL: parliamentary elections Pratindhi Sabha, 1994 | accessdate = 21 May 2009 | publisher = [[Inter-Parliamentary Union]]}}</ref> He lost the election by few hundred votes which went on very hard to [[Nepali Congress]] in the [[Parliament of Nepal]], as it was left out few seats behind by [[Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)]] to become the largest party of Nepal.<ref name=parliamentary>{{Cite web| url = http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/2386_91.htm | title = NEPAL: parliamentary elections Pratindhi Sabha, 1991 | accessdate = 21 May 2009 | publisher = [[Inter-Parliamentary Union]]}}</ref>

Poudel was the president of the Nepali Congress party for the district of Rasuwa for decades before multi party democracy was introduced in Nepal. He actively held the responsibility as district president of [[Rasuwa]] from 2004 to 2008.

In 2006, Poudel was arrested for organizing a protest rally in [[Kathmandu]] and chanting slogans like "ज्ञानेन्द्र चोर देश छोड", which literally means: Burglar King leave my country. During the period of direct rule by [[Gyanendra of Nepal|King Gyanendra]], he was arrested along with other party members during a protest rally on 18 February 2005.<ref name="auto"/>

=== Constituent Assembly election, 2008 ===
Poudel was a candidate in the Constituent Assembly election of 2008 (2064 [[Vikram Samvat|B.S.]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gorkhapatra.org.np/content.php?nid=36915 |title=NC names FPTP candidates |access-date=2017-11-10 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070726190528/http://www.gorkhapatra.org.np/content.php?nid=36915 |archive-date=2007-07-26 |url-status=dead }}</ref> On 1 April 2008, during the election period in Rasuwa, he and other Nepali Congress members were attacked by [[Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)|Maoists]] in [[Rasuwa]]. The NC had announced the event as "indefinite shutdown in Rasuwa district protesting the Maoists' attack on NC candidate Bal Chandra Poudel and its cadres on Tuesday, April 01, 2008.".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ig6_jabkuS0C|title=Nepal, Observation Constituent Assembly Election, 2008: Comprehensive Report|publisher=National Election Observation Committee|year=2008|isbn=978-9937-2-0754-6|page=54}}</ref> He was taken to the Teaching Hospital by air.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00091/toward-ca-election-in-nepal.htm|title=Toward CA Election in Nepal {{!}} Scoop News|website=www.scoop.co.nz|access-date=2017-10-26}}</ref> A total 25 people were arrested from [[Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)|Maoists]] after the incident.

==Controversial Claims==
On 15 August 2020, in a television interview with popular journalist [[Rishi Dhamala]], Poudel claimed that "Our current party president is the most ineffective and unsuccessful president throughout the history". Furthermore, he lashed out at president [[Sher Bahadur Deuba|Deuba]] citing Deuba's ineffectiveness as a leader of the opposition in the [[parliament|Federal Parliament of Nepal]].<ref name="ReportersNepal-2">{{Cite web |url=https://www.reportersnepal.com/2020/08/461914 |title=देउवाहरुलाई भारी बोकाएर हामीले अन्याय गरिराखेका छौं : बालचन्द्र पौडेल |publisher=ReportersNepal-2}}</ref>

In the same interview, Poudel even criticized other leaders like [[Ram Chandra Poudel]] by stating that "We are being unfair by coercing our leaders to carry load of the party".<ref name="ReportersNepal-2"/>

== See also ==
{{Portal|Nepal|Politics|Biography}}
* [[Nepali Congress]]
* [[Girija Prasad Koirala]]
* [[2006 democracy movement in Nepal]]
* [[People's Movement I (1990)]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.nepalicongress.org/ Party website]

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[[Category:People of the Nepalese Civil War]]

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