Veteran communist leader dies
KATHMANDU, JUL 25 -
Nar Bahadur Karmacharya, a veteran communist leader who was active in the communist movement of Nepal since 1949, died on Wednesday at the age of 90. He was admitted to Kathmandu Model Hospital on July 8 after suffering from jaundice and pneumonia.
Karmacharya was a founding member of the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) and a member of the advisory committee in the UCPN (Maoist). Four communist leader s Pushpa Lal Shrestha, Narayan Bilas Joshi, Niranjan Govinda Baidya and Karmacharya had established CPN, the first communist party of Nepal, on April 22, 1949.
On the demise of Karmacharya, the UCPN (Maoist) expressed deep condolence. “His death is an irreparable loss to the party and the communist movement of Nepal,” the UCPN (Maoist) said in a press statement. Nepali Congress President Sushil Koirala and CPN-UML leader Madhav Kumar Nepal reached the UCPN (Maoist) office to pay last tributes to Karmacharya.
Chairman of Interim Election Government Khil Raj Regmi also paid tribute to him upon reaching Khula Manch, where his body was kept. The last rite of Karmacharya was performed at Pashupati Aryaghat with a state honour in respect of his contribution to the leftist and democratic movement of Nepal.
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