Leaders Hail Mohan Chandra Adhikari's Life as Inspirational Political Chapter

Kirtipur. Political leaders have said that Mohan Chandra Adhikari's life is an inspirational aspect of Nepali politics. Leaders expressed this view at a program organized today to release the book 'Jageda Jeevan', based on the biography of senior leader Mohan Chandra Adhikari, known by the nickname 'Nepali Nelson Mandela'.

Former Prime Minister Jhalanath Khanal said that Mohan Chandra's book is an important document of the 77-year communist movement. Former Prime Minister Madhav Nepal said that many aspects of Mohan Chandra Adhikari's life remain to be revealed in the book and requested the Mohan Chandra Adhikari Foundation to work on it. "Once Mohan Chandra Adhikari used to review the Jhapa movement and KP Oli used to write a diary, we need to find out where it went," he said.

His old colleague, former minister Radhakrishna Mainali, said that Mohan Chandra has been inspirational from the beginning of the Jhapa movement in terms of age, qualification, and enthusiasm.

Jhapa movement leader CP Mainali said that today's people's rights have been achieved as a result of Mohan Chandra Adhikari's enthusiastic leadership 55 years ago.

It was mentioned in the released book that Adhikari's political life was transcribed from what he spoke on a 'tape recorder' to journalists. Born in 1994 BS, Adhikari entered politics due to his proximity to his uncle Manmohan Adhikari and his maternal uncle BP Koirala.

Initially attracted to communist politics, he received a Communist Party membership in 2011. Arrested for the first time in his political life in 2015, he spent 17 years in 10 different jails.

Speaking about the book and Adhikari's life, UML leader Yuvraj Gyawali said that Mohan Chandra was a communist who believed that spirituality and materialism should be coordinated and who had studied the Gita well.

Mohan Chandra, released in 2046 BS, was given the title 'Nelson Mandela of Nepal' by the supreme leader of the movement, Ganesh Man Singh, at a program held at Trichandra Campus. Immediately after, former Indian Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar called him 'Nelson Mandela of Asia' at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, after which he became known as the Nelson Mandela of Nepal. Mohan Chandra, who advocated for policies in the style of the Chinese revolution at the 2059 UML General Convention, served as a member of the National Assembly from 2050 to 2056 BS.

Senior physician Sundarmani Dixit said that the struggles of Mohan Chandra should be made known to the new generation. Former Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak said that it is positive that books containing the biographies of leaders like Mohan Chandra are coming out to explain to the current generation that today's democracy has come about through the hard struggles of a generation.

Leader Adhikari said that the communist movement has not achieved the success it envisioned because the proletariat has not led the Communist Party.