Bharat Mohan Adhikari

Bharat Mohan Adhikari (Nepali: भरतमोहन अधिकारी) (4 May 1936 – 2 March 2019) was a Nepali politician, economist. 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.

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	(1936-05-04)4 May 1936 Mahottari District, Kingdom of Nepal
Died	2 March 2019(2019-03-02) (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)

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

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]