Madan
Kumar Bhandari was a Nepalese politician and communist leader. He was
sensational youth Communist leader who rose to prominence after being
party leader and defeating great rival leader Krishna Prasad Bhattarai
in the general election. The New York Times featured him,[clarification
needed] writing, “Karl Marx lives in Nepal.Bhandari was born in
Dhungesangu village of Taplejung district of eastern Nepal. He studied
in Medibung School in Taplejung and in Varanasi, India. In 1972, he
became the central committee member of the Janabadi Sanskritik Morcha
(Democratic Cultural Front), a student movement launched by Pushpa Lal
Shrestha. Around 1976, he left Pushpa Lal’s Communist Party of Nepal to
launch the Mukti Morcha Samuha (“Liberation Front Group”), which formed
an alliance with the survivors of the Jhapa Movement in 1978. He was a
founder member of the Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist)
preceding the 1980 referendum and was elected general secretary at its
fourth national in 1986.
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