Nepal Democratic Congress
Nepal Democratic Congress नेपाल प्रजातान्त्रिक कांग्रेस | |
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| President | Mahendra Bikram Shah |
| General Secretary | Surya Prasad Upadhyaya |
| Founder | Subarna Shamsher Rana and others |
| Founded | 4 August 1948 |
| Dissolved | 9 April 1950 |
| Succeeded by | Nepali Congress |
| Headquarters | Kathmandu District, Nepal |
| Ideology | Social democracy |
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The Nepal Democratic Congress (Nepali: नेपाल प्रजातान्त्रिक कांग्रेस) was a political party in Nepal established in 1948 by Subarna Shamsher and Mahabir Shamsher.
The party merged with Nepali National Congress on 9 April 1950 to form the Nepali Congress.
History
[edit]After the appointment of Mohan Shumsher as prime minister, he stopped the implementation of the 1948 Constitution and confiscated assets from some C-Class Ranas. Due to this, some C-Class Ranas led by Subarna Shamsher and Mahabir Shamsher, who were nephews of Padma Shumsher, financed the establishment of Nepal Democratic Congress with the aim of launching an armed struggle against the Rana regime. The party was founded with Mahendra Bikram Shah as the president and Surya Prasad Upadhyaya as general secretary in 1948 in Kolkata with the financial backing of Subarna Shamsher, Mahabir Shamsher and other C-Class Ranas.. The party leadership and financial backers were Rana and so initially had limited pubic appeal. Eventually the party attracted the support of people that were dissatisfied with factional politics in Nepali National Congress, Gorkha ex-servicemen and former members of the Indian Army. The party called for an armed struggle against the Rana regime and formed the core of the Mukti Sena[1][2]
The party merged with Nepali Congress on 9 April 1950.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Joshi, Bhuwan Lal; Rose, Leo E. (2023-04-28). Democratic Innovations in Nepal: A Case Study of Political Acculturation (1 ed.). University of California Press. doi:10.2307/jj.2430528. ISBN 978-0-520-32405-3.
- ^ Whelpton, John (2005). A history of Nepal. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-80026-6.
- ^ Levi, Werner (1952). "Government and Politics in Nepal: I". Far Eastern Survey. 21 (18): 185–191. doi:10.2307/3023867. ISSN 0362-8949.
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