Khum Bahadur Khadka | |
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| Nationality | Nepali |
| Political party | Nepali Congress |
Khum BahadurKhadka (Nepali:खुम बहादुर खड्का) (1951–2018) was a Nepali politician who was an elected member in Nepali Congress Central Working Committee.[1] He was aMinister of the Interior ofNepal and one of the most influential leaders ofNepali Congress Party. After some corruption allegations, he was not in active politics since about 2006-2007 and even withdrew his candidacy for theConstituent Assembly election from theDang-1 constituency, afterMaoists had accused him of responsibility in the killing of seven of their cadres.[2][3] He was convicted on 13 August 2012 with several counts of corruption, slapping him one-and-half year jail sentence along with a penalty of 9.47 millionNepali rupees.[4] His corruption escapades were mostly during the period when he held a number of high-ranking posts, including home minister and local development minister in the 1990s.[3]
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