Former President Bhandari pays tribute to Madan-Ashrit

Kathmandu / May 17: Former President Bidya Devi Bhandari has paid tribute to the then general secretary of the CPN UML, Madan Bhadari, and chief of Organization Department, Jibraj Ashrit.

She reminded the constructions of late Bhadari and Ashrit in Nepali communist movement. The leaders had worked untiringly for reaching communist movement among general people, she added.

In a message of tribute she released today, the 33rd Memorial Day of Madan Bhandari and Jibraj Ashrit, Bhandari said the ‘people’s multi-party democracy’ propounded by the popular leader Madan Bhandari is instrumental in ensuring social justice, prosperity and transformation via democratic system.

She further argued the leaders had played vital roles in establishing the UML as a dominant political party in the country.

Similarly, UML chairman KP Sharma Oli paid tribute to the late Bhandari and Ashrit. He remembered the roles they played in consolidation of party organization and development. “I revere their contribution and pay tribute,” he stated in a press release today.

According to leader Oli, both Bhandari and Ashrit were his close friends and leaders. “Although those past were painful, the haunting memory is further touching,” he observed. RSS