Surya Prasad Upadhyaya

Surya Prasad Upadhyaya (14 September 1907 – July 15, 1985(1985-07-15) (aged 77)) was 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

  1. ↑ Keshab Poudel (2002-06-21). "A New Phase Of Political Instability". Nepalnews.com. 21 (49). Archived from the original on 2002-08-05.
  2. ↑ "राजनीतिका चाणक्य] नागरिक न्यूज". 2012-07-30. Archived from the original on 2012-08-01.
  3. ↑ "Sino-Nepal Treaties, 1960". Nepal Democracy. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Nepal Office. 2001. Retrieved 2017-07-23.
  4. ↑ "Leaders of the Nepalese Delegation to the UN General Assembly (1956-2005)". Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2006. Archived from the original on 2006-06-20.
  5. ↑ T V R Shenoy (2005-02-24). "India's short-sightedness". Rediff India Abroad. Archived from the original on 2005-03-02.
  6. ↑ Phadnis, Urmila (1981). "Nepal: The Politics of Referendum". Pacific Affairs. 54 (3): 431–454. JSTOR 2756788.
  7. ↑ सूर्यप्रसाद उपाध्याय र लोकतन्त्र: लोकराज बराल Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. इ-कान्तिपुर
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