{"id":"keshab-prasad-badal","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/keshab-prasad-badal","language":"en","name":"Keshab Prasad Badal","name_en":"Keshab Prasad Badal","name_ne":null,"description":"Nepalese politician","headline":"Nepalese politician","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Keshav Prasad Badal  (Nepali: केशव प्रसाद बडाल) (born October 1952, in Kavre District) is a Nepalese politician.","summary_more":["Badal obtained his Bachelor of Economics degree from Tribhuvan University. He studied at Tri-Chandra Campus in Kathmandu.","Encounters with feudal rule in the 1960s radicalized the young Badal. He became a political activist in 1969. As of 1976 he was part of the central leadership of the Proletarian Revolutionary Organisation, Nepal. He was put in charge of leading the organisation in the Narayani, Janakpur and Bagmati zones. In 1978 he became a member of the Nepal Workers Peasants Organisation, in 1981 he was included in the politburo of the organisation (presumably of the Sharma faction, later D.P. Singh faction). After the merger of the D.P. Singh group with the Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) (CPN(ML)), Badal became secretary of the Kavre District Committee and a member of the Bagmati Zonal Committee of CPN(ML).","Badal was elected Bagmati Zonal Committee as incharge  and Alternate Central Committee Member at the 4th congress of CPN(ML) in 1990. As the leader of the party in the Bagmati zone, he played a key role in the 1990 Jana Andolan ('People's Movement'). The third national conference of the All Nepal Peasants Association elected him as its general secretary.","After the foundation of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) (CPN(UML)), Badal was made secretary of the Kavre District Committee of the party and included in its National Council."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"October 1948","date":"1948-10"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16120116#P569"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q837"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16120116#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"politician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16120116#P106"}},{"key":"party","label":"Political party","values":[{"text":"Nepal Communist Party","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q53700514"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16120116#P102"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"Tribhuvan University","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q588239","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/tribhuvan-university"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16120116#P69"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keshab_Prasad_Badal","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16120116"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Keshab Prasad Badal born?","a":"Keshab Prasad Badal was born on October 1948."},{"q":"Where did Keshab Prasad Badal study?","a":"Keshab Prasad Badal was educated at Tribhuvan University."}],"related":[{"name":"Ram Chandra Mandal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ram-chandra-mandal"},{"name":"Upendra Mahato","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/upendra-mahato-q67912160"},{"name":"Onsari Gharti Magar","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/onsari-gharti-magar"},{"name":"Arjun Bahadur Thapa","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/arjun-bahadur-thapa"},{"name":"Chautariya Pushkar Shah","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/chautariya-pushkar-shah"},{"name":"Jigme Dorje Palbar Bista","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jigme-dorje-palbar-bista"},{"name":"Kamal Thapa","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/kamal-thapa"},{"name":"Krishna Bahadur Mahara","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/krishna-bahadur-mahara"},{"name":"Prince Bahadur Shah of Nepal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/prince-bahadur-shah-of-nepal"},{"name":"Pushpa Lal Shrestha","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pushpa-lal-shrestha"},{"name":"Barsaman Pun","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/barsaman-pun"},{"name":"Bhumika Shrestha","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bhumika-shrestha"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/keshab-prasad-badal-77eb6fbadc.jpg","width":438,"height":406,"license":"CC BY-SA 3.0","credit":"User:Ascii002","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Photo_of_Keshab_Prasad_Badal,_Nepalese_politician_2014-06-24_19-57.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Keshab Prasad Badal","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keshab_Prasad_Badal","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q16120116","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16120116","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Photo of Keshab Prasad Badal, Nepalese politician 2014-06-24 19-57.jpg by User:Ascii002 (CC BY-SA 3.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Photo_of_Keshab_Prasad_Badal,_Nepalese_politician_2014-06-24_19-57.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Keshab Prasad Badal, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Photo of Keshab Prasad Badal, Nepalese politician 2014-06-24 19-57.jpg — User:Ascii002, CC BY-SA 3.0.","cite":"\"Keshab Prasad Badal\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/keshab-prasad-badal. Retrieved 7 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T15:28:16Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-06","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/keshab-prasad-badal","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/keshab-prasad-badal","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/keshab-prasad-badal?lang=ne"}}