Khem Raj Bhatta Mayalu is a Nepal

Nepal

Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...

ese politician and a member of the Nepali Congress (Democratic)

Nepali Congress (Democratic)

Nepali Congress was a political party of Nepal, which was formed due to vertical split of Nepali Congress. Nepali Congress divided to two parties, the Nepali Congress led by former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and the other led by Girija Prasad Koirala.-Merger of Nepali Congress and Nepali...

 party. During the panchayat regime he was the general secretary of the underground leftist group Nepal Janabadi Morcha

Nepal Janabadi Morcha

Nepal Janabadi Morcha is a leftwing political movement in Nepal. The group was founded in 1976, and worked clandestinely during the panchayat regime, and its chairman Ram Raja Prasad Singh lived in exile in India...

 (NJM), living in exile in Lucknow

Lucknow

Lucknow is the capital city of Uttar Pradesh in India. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of Lucknow District and Lucknow Division....

, India. After the 1985 bombings, which NJM had claimed responsibility for, Mayalu was awarded a death sentence in absentia

In absentia

In absentia is Latin for "in the absence". In legal use, it usually means a trial at which the defendant is not physically present. The phrase is not ordinarily a mere observation, but suggests recognition of violation to a defendant's right to be present in court proceedings in a criminal trial.In...

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In the 1994 legislative elections

Nepalese legislative elections, 1994

The 1994 Nepalese legislative election took place in Nepal on 15 November 1994 to elect the Nepal House of Representatives . The election took place after the previous Nepali Congress government collapsed and King Birenda called new elections...

 Mayalu was the candidate of NJM in the Dadeldhura

Dadeldhura District

Dadeldhura district, a part of Mahakali zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. The district, with Dadeldhura as its district headquarters, covers an area of 1,538km² and has a population of 126,162....

 constituency. Mayalu came second with 9966 votes; the seat was won by Sher Bahadur Deuba

Sher Bahadur Deuba

Sher Bahadur Deuba is a Nepalese politician and former Prime Minister. He is the second senior most leader of the Nepali Congress. He has twice been elected as the leader of parliamentary party of the Nepali Congress, thus enabling him to be elected twice as the Prime Minister of Nepal.He has...

 of Nepali Congress

Nepali Congress

The Nepali Congress is a Nepalese political party. Nepali Congress led the 1950 Democratic Movement which successfully ended the Rana dynasty and allowed commoners to take part in the polity. It again led a democratic movement in 1990, in partnership with leftist forces, to end monarchy and...

 with 20701 votes.

Later Mayalu joined the Nepali Congress; he won the Bardia 3 seat in the 1999 legislative elections as a Nepali Congress candidate. He got 15574 votes.

On February 23, 2001, Maoists attacked Mayalu's residence in Guleriya. In total Maoists have seized 15 bigha

Bigha

The bigha is a unit of measurement of area of a land, commonly used in Nepal, Bangladesh and in a few states of India including Uttaranchal, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Assam, Gujarat, Rajasthan etc. The precise size of a bigha appears to vary considerably...

s of land belonging to Mayalu.

When Sher Bahadur Deuba split away from Nepali Congress and formed Nepali Congress (Democratic), Mayalu followed him. On October 18, 2001, Mayalu was named Minister of General Administration in Deuba's cabinet.

Mayalu was arrested on March 8 and later on May 29, 2005 following crack-downs on prodemocracy protests.