Hisila Yami
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Nepal
Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
ese politician and architect. She is a Central Committee member of Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and a former president of the All Nepal Women's Association (Revolutionary).
Yami graduated from the School of Planning and Architecture in Delhi
Delhi
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, India
India
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, in 1982.
She completed her M. Arch. from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in U.K. in 1995.
During the 1990 uprising against the panchayat regime, Yami was one of the most high-profile women leaders in the protests.She was also the General Secretary of All India Nepalese Students' Association, 1981–1982. She was a lecturer at Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk Campus from 1983 to 1996.In 1995 she became the President of the All Nepal Women's Association (Revolutionary) and served a two-year term. She went underground in 1996 after the inception of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) led People's War. Since 2001, she has been a Central Committee Member of CPN (Maoist) and has worked in departments such as the International Department of the organization.
She made her first public appearance on June 18, 2003, during the then ongoing peace negotiations between the government and the Maoists.http://www.nepalnews.com.np/ntimes/issue150/fromthenepalipress.htm
In early 2005 she was, along with Bhattarai and Dina Nath Sharma
Dina Nath Sharma
Dina Nath Sharma, alias Ashok, is a Nepalese politician. In 1999 he led a revolt within the Communist Party of Nepal against the party leadership. On April 6, 1999 Sharma split from the party and constituted his own parallel Communist Party of Nepal . Sharma's party called for boycott of elections...
, demoted by the party leadership. In July she was reinstated into the Central Committee.
On April 1, 2007 Hisila Yami joined the interim government of Nepal as Minister of Physical Planning and Works.
http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=105357 Following a Maoist boycott of the government from September to December 2007, Yami was again sworn in as Minister of Physical Planning on December 31, 2007.
Following her victory in the Constituent Assembly elections, 2008, from Kathmandu constituency no. 7, she became a member of the Constituent Assembly. She joined the CPN (Maoist) led government in September as Minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation.
Yami is married to fellow Maoist leader Dr. Baburam Bhattarai
Baburam Bhattarai
Dr. Baburam Bhattarai is a Nepalese politician who became the 35th Prime Minister of Nepal in August 2011. He is a senior Standing Committee Member and vice chairperson of Unified Communist Party of Nepal . His party started a revolutionary People's War in Nepal in 1996 that ultimately led to the...
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External links
- People’s Power in Nepal – Article in Monthly ReviewMonthly ReviewMonthly Review is an independent Marxist journal published 11 times per year in New York City.-History:The publication was founded by Harvard University economics instructor Paul Sweezy, who became the first editor...
by Yami - Turkish version of the article
- Comments by Yami in Monthly Review
- Women's Participation in People's War in Nepal
- NPR Interview with Comrade Parvati
- http://nepalimahila.com/profile_hishila_yami.html