Bhim Acharya

**Bhim Acharya** (Nepali: भिम आचार्य) secretary of Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), is the former Chief minister of Province No. 1. Governor Somnath Adhikari appointed him as the chief minister as per Article 168 (1) of the Constitution of Nepal after He was unanimously elected parliamentary party leader of the CPN (UML) on 26 August 2021, following the resignation of outgoing chief minister Sher Dhan Rai as both the parliamentary party leader and chief minister.

## Political career

Acharya joined students movement in 1975. He joined Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) in 1979.

He won the 2008 Nepalese Constituent Assembly election from Sunsari-6 constituency with 15,606 votes defeating Narendra Bahadur Basnet of  Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). He was appointed as the Chief Whip of the Parliamentary Party of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist).

Bhim Acharya was elected as the leader of the CPN-UML's state-1 parliamentary party on 26 August 2021.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific-prefix**: Honourable
- **name**: Bhim Acharya
- **honorific suffix**: House of Representatives (Nepal), MP Koshi Provincial Assembly, MPA
- **native name**: भिम आचार्य
- **native name lang**: ne
- **office**: 2nd Chief Minister of Koshi Province, Chief Minister of Province No. 1
- **termstart**: 26 August 2021
- **termend**: 1 November 2021
- **president**: Bidya Devi Bhandari
- **governor**: Somnath Adhikari
- **preceded**: Sher Dhan Rai
- **successor**: Rajendra Kumar Rai (Nepalese politician), Rajendra Kumar Rai
- **office1**: Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation (Nepal), Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation
- **term start1**: 25 February 2014
- **term end1**: 13 September 2014
- **vicepresident1**: Paramananda Jha
- **president1**: Ram Baran Yadav
- **primeminister1**: Sushil Koirala
- **successor1**: Deepak Chandra Amatya
- **office2**: Koshi Provincial Assembly, Leader of the House in the
Koshi Provincial Assembly
- **governor2**: Somnath Adhikari
- **termstart2**: 26 August 2021
- **termend2**: 1 November 2021
- **predecessor2**: Sher Dhan Rai
- **successor2**: Rajendra Kumar Rai (Nepalese politician), Rajendra Kumar Rai
- **office3**: Member of Pratinidhi Sabha, Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha
- **term start3**: 22 December 2022
- **predecessor3**: Sitaram Mahato
- **constituency3**: Sunsari 2 (constituency), Sunsari 2
- **office4**: Member of the Koshi Provincial Assembly
- **term start4**: 5 February 2018
- **term end4**: September 2022
- **constituency4**: Sunsari 1 (constituency), Sunsari 1(B)
- **preceded4**: _Constituency created_
- **successor4**: Bijay Kumar Rai
- **office5**: Member of House of Representatives (Nepal), Nepalese Constituent Assembly
- **term start5**: 28 May 2008
- **term end5**: 14 October 2017
- **predecessor5**: _Constituency established_
- **successor5**: _Constituency abolished_
- **constituency5**: Sunsari 6
- **birth place**: Toliya–6, Dhankuta District, Dhankuta
- **nationality**: Nepali
- **party**: Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist), CPN (UML)
- **spouse**: Nira Devi Khanal Acharya
- **parents**: Bala Prasad Acharya (_Father_)
Laxmi Devi Acharya (_Mother_