Mohan Chandra Adhikari Explained

Mohan Chandra Adhikari
Party:CPN (UML)
Nationality:Nepali

Mohan Chandra Adhikari (Nepali: मोहनचन्द्र अधिकारी) is a former communist politician in Nepal. He is from a Brahmin family in Morang District. Adhikari studied B.A., but didn't appear in the final exams.[1] Adhikari had been a follower of Pushpa Lal Shrestha, but turned more radical than his mentor. Adhikari became a leader of the group in the Jhapa District Committee of the Communist Party which in the early 1970s intended to initiate a rebellion on the lines of the Naxalite insurgency in India.[2] [3]

Adhikari was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was saved from death sentence through a royal pardon. Whilst in jail, he was associated with the Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist). Adhikari would spend 17 years in prison. He was sometimes called the 'Nelson Mandela' of Nepal.[4] [5]

After being released from jail, Adhikari became an advisory-member of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist).[6] He also represented the party in the Upper House of Parliament.[7] He was arrested during the 2006 Loktantra Andolan.[8]

Adhikari later broke with communism, and became a Hindu leader. After the declaration of Nepal as a secular state, Adhikari participated in a meeting organised by the Shivsena Nepal.[9]

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Notes and References

  1. Rawal, Bhim. The Communist Movement in Nepal: Origin and Development. Kathmandu: Accham-Kathmandu Contact Forum, 2007. p. 109.
  2. Mitra, Subrata Kumar/Enskat, Mike/Spiess, Clemens. Political parties in South Asia. Westport: Praeger, 2004. p. 306.
  3. Rawal, Bhim. The Communist Movement in Nepal: Origin and Development. Kathmandu: Accham-Kathmandu Contact Forum, 2007. p. 91.
  4. http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/03/14/2003246227 Taipei Times – archives
  5. Rawal, Bhim. The Communist Movement in Nepal: Origin and Development. Kathmandu: Accham-Kathmandu Contact Forum, 2007. p. 93, 97.
  6. Web site: The Himalayan Times: Breaking News, Views, Reviews, Sports, Business, Entertainment from Nepal . 2008-07-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060301225344/http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullstory.asp?filename=6a4Ra0pa.9amal&folder=aHaoamW&Name=Home&dtSiteDate=20060223 . 2006-03-01 . dead .
  7. Web site: Nepal . 2008-07-08 . http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20011111111027/http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/countries/nepal/nepalfacts.html . 2001-11-11 . dead .
  8. https://web.archive.org/web/20061011083125/http://www.hindu.com/2006/04/07/stories/2006040704721600.htm The Hindu : International : Hundreds arrested in Nepal
  9. Web site: Hindu communist - Nepali Times . 2008-07-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110724190358/http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/issue/314/FromtheNepaliPress/12446 . 2011-07-24 . dead .
  10. Web site: राष्ट्रपतिबाट विभिन्न विभूषण, अलङ्कार र पदकको घोषणा Radio Nepal | रेडियो नेपाल. 2021-12-26.

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