NEPAL NEW PRIME MINISTER OATH OF OFFICE Newly elected Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai is being congratulated by well wishers after his swearing - in ceremony at the presidential office in Kathmandu , Nepal , 29 August 2011 . Maoist leader , Baburam Bhattarai , 57 , was sworn in as Nepal ' s 35 th prime minister . He was elected prime minister 28 August , after the fourth - largest bloc in parliament , the parties from the central plains , or Madhes , voted for him along with smaller parties , giving him the required two - thirds majority . As the fifth elected communist leader of the country , Bhattarai replaces Communist Party of Nepal - United Marxist - Leninist ( UML ) leader Jhalanath Khanal , who stepped down on August 14 to make way for a unity government . EPA / NARENDRA SHRESTHA < 모바일 애플리케이션 > < 포토 매거진 >< 저작권자 ( c ) 연합뉴스 . 무단 전재 - 재배 포금 지 . >