Chandigarh, Aug 30 (ANI): Calling it a proud moment, batch mates of newly elected Nepal Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai, an alumnus of Chandigarh College of Architecture in Chandigarh, expressed their happiness over his achievement.
J.P. Singh, a professor at the Chandigarh College of Architecture and a batch mate of Bhattarai, said it is a moment of glory for the college.
"It is a proud moment for the college today that one of our esteemed alumnus Dr. Baburam Bhattarai is the Prime Minister of Nepal. I think it is an unparalleled moment for the college to rejoice. I am very happy on this occasion," said J.P. Singh.
Talking about the simplicity of Bhattarai, Colonel Gurnek Singh, said Bhattarai was a disciplined student and till the college time he was not at all involved in political activities.
"Baburam was a very simple, disciplined student and academically he was one of the very good student, I can say, he was not a topper but was a very good student. Otherwise, he was a very soft spoken (student) and now to know this, we are really proud of him that he has become the Prime Minister of Nepal and what I can recollect during college days that he was not connected with any type of politics, to best of my knowledge. But he was very firm in his views," he added.
Reacting on Bhattarai's involvement in Maoist activities, Singh said during college days he was not involved in any such activities.
" During college days, he was not involved in any such politics, to my knowledge, or any such activities. That I believe when he went to JNU (Jawaharlal Nehru University), I think this thing started from there only, but here he was not," he added.
Bhattarai's appointment is seen easing a political impasse in Nepal, which has struggled through two years of stalemate since the former rebels quit the government in a conflict with the President over the control of the national army.
Bhattarai from the Unified Communist Party of Nepal Maoist defeated Ram Chandra Poudel of the Nepali Congress Party after winning the support of several smaller parties.
Bhattarai, 57, was born into a lower-middle-class family in a remote village in central Nepal. He attended the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, where he received a PhD in architecture. In 1981, while still in India, he joined the Communist Party of Nepal. (ANI)
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