Five interesting facts about Nepal's communist founder, Puspalal

ITAHARI, July 22: Today marks the 43rd memorial day of Puspalal Shrestha, founder of Nepal's communist party. Born in 1924 at Bhangere of Ramechhap district, Shrestha breathed his last while undergoing treatment at Govinda Ballav Pant Hospital of New Delhi, India on 22 July 1978.

Together with four fellow comrades, Shrestha constituted the first communist party of Nepal on 10 Baisakh 2006 BS (22 April 1949) in Kolkata of India. His four comrades were Niranjan Gobinda Vaidhya, Nar Bahadur Karmacharya, Motidevi Shrestha and Narayan Bilas Joshi. Shrestha became founding General Secretary of the first-ever communist party of Nepal.