Prime Minister Oli’s biography

Prime Minister Oli’s childhood name was Dhruba oli. While enrolling in school, his parents changed his name to Khadga Prasad oli. He studied up to the fifth grade at local Pranami Middle School.

The eldest child of father Mohan Prasad and mother Madhumaya Oli, KP Oli lost his mother at the age of four to smallpox which was spread like an epidemic then. After the death of his mother, Oli’s grandmother Rammaya had brought him up.

Oli is the first prime minister after the adoption of new constitution through Constituent Assembly.
​ Born on February 22, 1952, in Terhathum district, Oli was elected to the Constituent Assembly in the second CA election from Jhapa district constituency.  

Oli became CPN-UML's Parliamentary Party in the 2nd Constituent Assembly on February 4, 2014, defeating former party Chairman Jhala Nath Khanal.

Oli, who had served as Home Minister in 1994/95 after the restoration of democracy in 1990, became the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs during the interim government in 2006.

According to his childhood friends, KP Oli was a smart kid from the beginning and had a sharp mind. He liked playing chess and encouraged others to take up the game as it helped in brain development, they recall.

Oli also enjoyed playing football and used to make balls out of rags. He was good at scoring goals after successful dribbles, his childhood friend and distant nephew Padam Prasad Oli said. Those days, he liked writing nationalistic poems and reading those to friends, Padam Prasad continued.

With help from communist leader Ramnath Dahal, Oli migrated to Jhapa in 1963 at the age of 12. Dahal was later killed in Sukhani Murders. Having been influenced by Marxist and Leninist philosophies, Oli entered communist politics in 1966.

Oli went underground in 1970 after taking membership of Nepal Communist Party. The same year, he was arrested for the first time by the Panchayat government. In 1971, he took leadership of Jhapa Rebellion which was initiated by beheading landlords in the district. 

Oli spent total 14 years behind bars in different jails in the country. After his release, he became the central committee member of CPM-ML. In 1989, Oli took upon the responsibility of party’s Lumbini zone chief.

Democratic movement 1990 that brought down the Panchayat regime, Khadga Prasad Oli became a popular name in Nepal. In 1991, he became the founding chairman of Prajatantrik Rastriya Yuwa Sangh. A year later, he became the party’s publicity department chief and established himself as a key figure in Nepali politics.