Former Minister Pradip Nepal no more

Kathmandu: Communist leader and former minister Pradip Nepal passed away this afternoon.

CPN (UML) parliamentary party’s chief whip Mahesh Bartaula said leader Nepal, suffering from Parkinson’s disease for some years, took his last breath at Norvic Hospital in Kathmandu.

Nepal served as the Minister for Information and Communication in the country’s first communist government led by the then Prime Minister Manmohan Adhikari.

Likewise, leader Nepal took charge of the Ministry of Water Resources and the Ministry of Education during his political journey.

The former politburo member of the CPN (UML), leader of Nepal served as the spokesperson and chief of the publicity department of the UML. Also an established literary figure, leader Nepal used to write his opinions and literary creations in the name of Sanjaya Thapa when he was underground during the Panchayat era.

With multiple feathers in his hat, Nepal served as the Editor of Nabayug, Chhalphal and Prakash weeklies and used to write for different newspapers as a columnist. Leader Nepal was born in 2010 BS at Gogane village in Bhojpur district.

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