Bharat Mohan Adhikari


Bharat Mohan Adhikari was a Nepali politician and freedom fighter. He became the Minister of Finance of Nepal in the 1994-95 government of Prime Minister Man Mohan Adhikari He was the first communist Finance Minister who championed "आफ्नो गाउं आफै बनाउ". He was also the deputy prime minister of Nepal in the Deuba cabinet which was dissolved by King Gyanendra.
In 2012, he was at the Medanta Medicity Hospital in New Delhi for suspected valvular heart disease, but was not treated for the same.
Although a central figure of the CPN-UML, he was considered to have held more moderate views.
Adhikari died on 2 March 2019 from multiple organ failure stemming from a severe case of COPD.