Bhim Bahadur Rawal

In 2014 it was reported that he was injured in a Sharma Oli attack on a campaign trail at a Seti-Kathmandu liaison committee.

In 2009 he spoke at the Millennium Development Goals' meeting about least developed countries. After the meeting he addressed the Third UN Private Sector Forum regarding poverty and hunger and urged the government and various private sectors to work together in order to form economy's synergy.

Rawal began his political career when he began serving as Jhalanath Khanal's adviser in 1990. From 1992 to 1993 he served on the United Nations's Cambodian elections panel and later allied himself with Madhav Kumar Nepal. In 1994 he was elected into Parliament following by being its Minister for Commerce, Tourism and Civil Aviation till 1995. From 1998 to 1999 he served the same positions for second term and also was Minister of Science and Technology. In April 2008 he was Proportional representative of the 2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly.

Rawal was born in Achham, Nepal. He is from Chhetri cast and has a wife and two sons. He obtained both master's and bachelor's degrees from the Tribhuwan University and in the 1980s became a lawyer who specialized in legal awareness for the Nepal Bar Association.

Bhim Bahadur Rawal (Nepali: भीम बहादुर रावल ; born December 14, 1956) commonly known as Bhim Rawal is a CPN-UML presently Nepal Communist Party politician. He is former Deputy Prime Minister & Defence Minister of Nepal in Oli cabinet, 2015 and former Minister of Home Affairs of Nepal in Madhav Nepal cabinet. He was the vice chairman of Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist). He was taken as prospective future Prime Minister and CPN-UML chairman by his cadres during 2017 Nepalese legislative election campaign. He won the election from Achham-1 defeating Bharat Swar.