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Marking 39th Death Anniversary Of Pushpalal
Marking 39th Death Anniversary Of Pushpalal
KTM Metro Reporter
July 23, 2017
Kathmandu: Communists and other politicians marked the 39th memorial day of Pushpalal Shrestha with different programs across the country on July 21, 2017. Pushpalal Shrestha dedicated and spent his entire life on laying foundation of Communist Party of Nepal, and then strengthening it. However, it has been split into numerous parties due to the personal interest of so-called communist leaders.
Pushpalal Shrestha was the founder of the Communist Party of Nepal in 1949, also was the younger brother of youngest martyr Gangalal Shrestha that had been shot dead by the order of Rana Prime Minister Juddha Shumsher for demanding the basic human rights in 1941.
Pushpalal was a great visionary, party organizer and dedicated communist. He had been for the republic, and remained a republican throughout the life. His dream came to true in 2008 thanks to the joints actions of the Maoists and the democratic party NC , and then the Madheshi movement that swept the southern Nepal.
After king Mahendra took over the State power from the popularly elected Prime Minister BP Koirala, and banned all political parties in 1960, and then Nepal totally fell into the abyss of political darkness, Pushpalal put forward his strategy of the communists and the democrats working together on reinstating the parliament dissolved by the king, and then proclaiming Nepal a republic.
At that time, neither the democrats such as BP and his colleagues nor the communists took such a crucial strategy seriously to save Nepal from the despot like Mahendra. Some communist leaders such as Mohan Bikram, Kesherjung Rayamajhi, and Manmohan Adhikari deserted him but Pushpalal went on working on his own.
The then government banned the Communist Party of Nepal because it was for republic in 1953. Then, Kesherjung Rayamajhi, and Manmohan Adhikari split away from Pushpalal, and set up a new Communist Party of Nepal that accepted the constitutional monarchy, got the State’s recognition for the communist party.
Another visionary leader Ganeshman Singh took the Pushpalal’s strategy of combined efforts of democrats and communists on ending the authoritarian Panchayat system and reinstating a multi-party democratic system in 1990, and successfully ended the Panchayat and reinstated democracy. Thus, one of the dreams of Pushpalal came to true in 1990.
However, Pushpalal’s dream of making Nepal a republic came to true only in 2008. The Maoists launched a people’s war for making Nepal a republic in 1996, and in 2005, the Democratic Party NC joined hands with the Maoists in 2005 for the joint actions against the monarchy to end it forever. NC deleted the provision for the constitutional monarchy from its statute, and paved the way for declaring Nepal a republic through the parliament in 2008.
