Bhattari, Krishna Prasad (1925- )

Nepalese politician, prime minister 1990-91. As an opponent of absolute monarchy, he was in hiding for 12 years until 1990, when, as leader of the centrist Nepali Congress Party, he became prime minister in the wake of the revolution that year, which ended the uncontested rule of King Birendra. However, in 1991, in Nepal's first multiparty elections in three decades, he offered his resignation to the king after losing his own seat in the 205-member House of Representatives to the Marxist leader of the United Communist Party, Madan Bhandari.