Born in a lower middle class family on June 18, 1954, in Belbas, Khoplang VDC, Gorkha district, Dr. Baburam Bhattarai is one of the outstanding personalities in the political and intellectual sphere of the country. Former Prime Minister Dr. Bhattarai is a senior leader of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), the largest party in the country. Dr. Bhattarai became the 35th Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Nepal for a tenure of about one and a half years. Earlier to this, he served as the first Finance Minister of the Federal Republic of Nepal during the Puspa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda'-led government in 200