Surya Prasad Upadhyaya
Surya Prasad Upadhyaya (14 September 1907 – 15 July 2014), a Nepalese politician. Upadhyaya was a leader of the Nepal Democratic Congress, which merged with into the Nepali Congress in 1950.[1]
He was born in Kathmandu on 14 September 1907.[2]
Upadhyaya became Home and Law Minister in the Nepali Congress cabinet after the 1959 election.[3] He led the Nepalese delegation at the 1959 UN General Assembly.[4] During the December 1960 royal coup d'état, he was arrested along with B.P. Koirala and Ganesh Man Singh.[5]
In 1978 he took part in a split in the Nepali Congress, and he and Bakhan Singh Gurung founded the Nepali Congress (Subarna).[6]
He died in New Delhi on 15 July 2014.[7]
References
- ^ Cover Story (Spotlight Weekly)
- ^ राजनीतिका चाणक्य नागरिक न्यूज
- ^ Sino-Nepal Treaties, 1960
- ^ Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- ^ India's short-sightedness
- ^ Phadnis, Urmila. Nepal: The Politics of Referendum, published in Pacific Affairs, Vol. 54, No. 3, (Autumn, 1981), pp. 431-454
- ^ सूर्यप्रसाद उपाध्याय र लोकतन्त्र: लोकराज बराल इ-कान्तिपुर