Bharat Mohan Adhikari

Bharat Mohan Adhikari
Bharat Mohan Adhikari
भरतमोहन अधिकारी
Minister of Finance
	In office; 30 November 1994 – 12 September 1995
Monarch	Birendra
Prime Minister	Man Mohan Adhikari
Preceded by	Mahesh Acharya
Succeeded by	Ram Saran Mahat
Minister of Finance
	In office; December 1998 – May 1999
Monarch	Birendra
Prime Minister	Girija Prasad Koirala
Preceded by	Ram Saran Mahat
Succeeded by	Mahesh Acharya
Minister of Finance, Deputy prime minister (Nepal)
	In office; 2004–2005
Monarch	Gyanendra
Prime Minister	Sher Bahadur Deuba
Personal details
Born	4 May 1936; Mahottari District, Kingdom of Nepal
Died	2 March 2019 (aged 82); HAMS Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal
Political party	Nepal Communist Party
Other political; affiliations	CPN-UML (until 2018)
Relatives	Man Mohan Adhikari (brother); BP Koirala(cousin)

Bharat Mohan Adhikari (Nepali: भरतमोहन अधिकारी) (4 May 1936 – 2 March 2019) 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.^[1] He was the first communist Finance Minister who championed the "Afno Gaun Afai Banau" (Nepali: आफ्नो गाउँ आफै बनाउँ; Develop our own village) campaign.

He also served as the deputy prime minister of Nepal in the Deuba cabinet (2004–05), which was later dissolved by King Gyanendra. Although a central figure of the CPN-UML, he was considered to have held more moderate views. ^{[citation needed]}

Health and death[edit]

In 2012, he was at the Medanta Medicity Hospital in New Delhi for suspected valvular heart disease, but was not treated for the same.^[2]^[3] He died on 2 March 2019 from multiple organ failure stemming from a severe case of COPD.^[4]