PM Deuba attends leader Kishunji’s birth anniversary commemoration function

KATHMANDU: Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba today attended a ceremony organised marking the 98th birth anniversary of noted leader Krishna Prasad Bhattarai who is known as Kishunji in the Nepalese political sphere.

On the occasion, the Prime Minister opened the Badegaun Ashram’s Gyan Mahayagya, a religious event.

The Prime Minister carried out the’sankalpa puja’ and the ‘deep prajjwalan,’ or lamp lighting ceremony.

Former minister and NC vice president Purna Bahadur Khadka, former ministers Sharat Singh Bhandari and Omkar Prasad Shrestha, Godavari municipality chief Gajendra Maharjan, deputy mayor Muna Adhikari, Chief District Officer Jay Narayan Acharya, SSP Yagya Binod Pokhrel and Nepali Congress (NC) president Jitendra Kumar Shrestha were there to welcome the Prime Minister to the Ashram built in commemoration of the late leader.

According to main priest Ram Chandra Timalsina, the Mahayagya will last until Dec 13.

Following the first parliamentary election in 1959, Bhattarai became Speaker of the Lower House and Prime Minister in the interim Council of Ministers formed following the 1990s political movement. From May 31, 1999 to March 22, 2000, he was elected Prime Minister twice.

Bhattarai had been involved in Nepalese politics since the formation of the Nepali Congress in 2003 BS, and he was the commander of the Liberation Army mobilized during the armed revolution in 2007 BS to undertake the Janakpur-Udayapur seize mission.

The veteran democratic fighter has made incomparable contributions to the country’s democratic movements and overall politics. On March 4, 2011, he passed away.