HEADLINE NEWS THE RISING NEPAL (DAILY)

By A Staff Reporter

Kathmandu Jan. 23: Gajendra Narayan Singh, the founder and National President of Nepal Sadbhavana Party (NSP) as well as the National Assembly member passed away this afternoon following several cardiac attacks at a local nursing home.

Singh, 73, was admitted at the Norvic Health Care Centre yesterday (Wednesday) evening after he complained about heart problems. He suffered heart attacks three times and breathed his last at 2:35 P.M. Singh suffered the first cardiac attacks at 10 P.M. last night and the second and third at 9: A.M. and 1 P.M. respectively. His condition was said to have been deteriorated following this morning’s attack.

The NSP National President had been suffering from multiple diseases - diabetes, high blood pressure and heart ailment for the past few years. He is survived by his wife Anandi Devi.

According to NSP sources, Late Singh’s body will be kept at the Party’s Central Office at Shanti Nagar of Baneshwor till tomorrow morning. The body then will be taken to Open Theatre at Tundikhel where it will be kept from 8 to 11 A.M. for the visitors to pay their last homage to the deceased leader. And then the body will be flown to Rajbiraj of Saptari where the last rites will be performed.

Born on Chaitra Ram Nawami day in 1985 B.S. at Koiligadi Village Development Committee of Saptari district, Singh, who did his I.A. from Varanasi of India, began his political career as the Nepali Congress activist in 2003 B.S.

He became Nepali Congress Saptari district Vice-President and President and assumed different party posts from 2007 B.S. to 2033 B.S. He was first imprisoned in 2006 B.S. and spent seven years in jail.

In 2018 B.S., he went into exile in India and stayed there for eleven years. He later became Nepali Congress’s eastern region coordinator in 2034 B.S. and campaigned for the establishment of the multiparty democratic system in the national referendum held in 2036 B.S.

Singh later constituted Nepal Sadbhavana Council in 2042 B.S. and became the national coordinator of the council. One year later, he was elected as Rastriya Panchayat member in 2043 B. S.

After the decision to transform the Council into Nepal Sadbhavana Party was taken into effect in the Baisakh of 2047 B.S., he became the National President of the Party and continued to preside over the Party in the capacity of National President following approvals of the Party’s first, second and third conventions held in 2047 B.S., 2050 B.S. and 2054 B.S. respectively.

He was elected the member of the House of Representatives in 2048 B.S. and 2051 B.S. from the Saptari’s constituency No. 2 and was the NSP parliamentary party leader. Singh was appointed Minister for Supply, Minister for Local Development, Minister for Science and Technology and Minister for Industry during the coalition government formed after 2052 B.S. After losing the general elections in 2056 B.S., he was elected member of National Assembly.

RSS adds: Nepal Sadbhavana Party (NSP) has published a statement here wishing eternal peace to the departed soul of Party President Gajendra Narayan Singh who passed away today and expressing condolences to the grief-stricken family.

The party has directed all its units across the country not to conduct any party activity from January 24 to 26 and to lower the party flag to half mast from January 24 to February 6.

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