Bijay Kumar Gachhadar (; born 1 February 1954) is a Nepalese politician and former leader of the Nepali Congress. He has served five terms as deputy prime minister of Nepal under the government of Madhav Kumar Nepal, Baburam Bhattarai, KP Sharma Oli, Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Sher Bahadur Deuba. He was the second vice-president of Nepali Congress having been nominated after merger of Nepal Loktantrik Forum into Nepali Congress.
Political career In April 2008, he won the Constituent Assembly election, 2013 with 23769 votes. Gachhadar was previously in the Madhesi people forum and Nepali Congress (Democratic), and was Minister of Water Resources. Gachhadar was formally expelled from Nepali Congress in March 2008, by that time he had already joined PRF. He was subsequently appointed as Minister and sworn in on 22 August 2008.
On 4 June 2009 he was appointed as the deputy prime minister for the first time keeping in consideration his contribution to establish Madhav Kumar Nepal's administration.
Again as per the poll in the cabinet, he was again appointed as the Deputy Prime minister and Minister of Home Affairs in the government led by Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai. On 16 October 2017 his party Nepal Democratic Forum merged with Nepali Congress. He was nominated Vice-president of Nepali Congress alongside Bimalendra Nidhi till 2021.
He was suspended from member of parliament on 5 February 2020 due to corruption charges for which he was acquitted in 2024 as innocent by special court.
Electoral history ElectionHouseConstituencyPartyVotesOpponentPartyVotesResult1991House of RepresentativesSunsari 2Nepali Congress27,775Lila ShresthaCPN (UML)15,885 Elected1994House of Representatives21,963 Kuldeep Peshkar10,708 Elected1999House of Representatives27,527Rewati Raman Bhandari23,339 Elected2008Constituent AssemblySunsari 3MJF-N (Loktantrik)23,769Agam Lal ChuadharyNepali Congress10,806 Elected2013Constituent AssemblyMJF-N (Loktantrik)17,524Bhagwati ChaudharyCPN (UML)17,162 Elected2017House of RepresentativesNepali Congress38,97238,651 Elected2022House of Representatives35,60040,788 Lost
See also Kamal Thapa Bimalendra Nidhi Prakash Man Singh Gopal Man Shrestha Upendra Yadav Ram Chandra Poudel Jitendra Narayan Dev
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