Bakyt Beshimov (Russian: Бактыбек Жолчубекович Бешимов; born 1954) is a leader of parliamentary fraction[1] and deputy chairman of Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan.

[2] Bakyt Beshimov is a prominent opposition leader,[3] famous for his liberal views, and speaking out against Kurmanbek Bakiyev's[4][5] and Askar Akayev's regimes.

That same year Beshimov ran for a newly opened parliamentary spot from a district in Osh, and won a landslide victory.

Under the agreement reached in the year 2000, Beshimov was appointed as Kyrgyzstan's ambassador to India with concurrent accreditation to Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka.

[26] After the new government followed short of promises made during the Tulip Revolution,[27] and started reverting the course back to dictatorial rule, Beshimov re-engaged in politics, going into opposition against Kurmanbek Bakiyev.

[citation needed] Beshimov pushed forward policies to prevent other Shanghai Cooperation Organisation members from interfering with Kyrgyzstan's domestic issues.

Bakyt Beshimov came under intense pressure for actively opposing the Kyrgyz government's initial decision to close a US air base, now the Transit Center at Manas.

[36] Arguing for the importance of a US air base to the security in Central Asia created further divide between Beshimov and the "pro-Russian" government of Bakiyev.

[37] Beshimov was the campaign manager for the unified opposition candidate during the July 2009 presidential elections,[38] which western observers deemed "fraudulent".

[41] Beshimov recently spoke against Bakiyev's appointment of his own son as head the Central Agency for Development, Investment, and Innovation.