Ram Chandra Poudel or Ram Chandra Paudel is a Nepalese politician, belonging to the Nepali Congress. In the 2008 Constituent Assembly election he was elected from the Tanahu-2 constituency, winning 18 970 votes. He was elected as the Leader of Parliamentary Party of the Nepali Congress on June 20, 2009 by securing 61 votes against Sher Bahadur Deuba, a former Prime Minister who secured 48 votes. Poudel is also Vice President of Nepali Congress Party. Born in October 1944 in a lower middle class farmer’s family of a remote village of Satiswara of Tanahun district in Western Nepal. He finished his education M.A. (1970) in Nepali literature from Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, appeared in the examination while being detained the jail as an anti-panchayat leader. SASTRI (1967) in Sanskrit literature from Tribhuvan University.
