Maoist Chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal was  elected Prime Minister of Nepal, the eighth in as many years, making a come back to the post after a gap of over seven years.

Pushpa Kamal Dahal, chairman of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and known by the nom de guerre Prachanda, or Fierce, was the sole candidate offered to replace K.P. Sharma Oli, who resigned 10 days ago to avoid a no-confidence vote.

• Mr. Dahal is Nepal’s 25th prime minister since a 1990 uprising diminished the monarchy’s role and re-established a multiparty democracy. He previously served as prime minister in 2008, after a peace treaty was brokered with several established political parties and his Maoist rebels who toppled the monarchy.
• He won the votes of 363 lawmakers in a 595-member legislature, known as the Constituent Assembly.

• As part of the coalition agreement, Mr. Dahal promised to address the demands of the Madhesi people, a minority ethnic group who live on Nepal’s plains near a restive border with India.

• The alliance with the Nepali Congress party has made strange bedfellows of Mr. Dahal and that party’s president, Sher Bahadur Deuba, who as prime minister in 2002, at the height of the Maoist insurgency, put a bounty on Mr. Dahal’s head.

• Relations between India and Nepal reached a new low after Mr. Oli took office last year. He recalled Nepal’s ambassador to India, who was accused of anti-government activities, and embraced China by signing a trade and transit treaty in March that was seen as further alienating India.