Naya Shakti Nepal Coordinator Baburam Bhattarai addresses a press meet in Urlabari of Morang district, on Saturday, July 9, 2016. Photo: Dr. Baburam Bhattarai was the 35th Prime Minister of Nepal from August 2011 to March 2013. As a way out of the political deadlock since the dissolution of the first Nepalese Constituent Assembly in May 2012, he was then replaced by Chief Justice Khil Raj Regmi to head an interim government that should hold elections by 21 June 2013. He was a senior Standing Committee Member and vice chairperson of Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) until his resignation from his post and all responsibilities from the party on 26 September 2015.