Surya Prasad Upadhyaya

Surya Prasad Upadhyaya
Born(1907-09-14)14 September 1907
Kathmandu
Died30 July 1984(1984-07-30) (aged 76)
New Delhi India
NationalityNepalese
Other namesSuryababu
OccupationPolitical leader
Known forEstablishment of Nepali Congress
Political partyNepali Congress (Subarna)

Surya Prasad Upadhyaya (14 September 1907 – 30 July 1984) 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 30 July 1984.[7]

References

  1. ^ Keshab Poudel (21 June 2002). "A New Phase Of Political Instability". Nepalnews.com. Vol. 21, no. 49. Archived from the original on 5 August 2002.
  2. ^ "राजनीतिका चाणक्य] नागरिक न्यूज". 30 July 2012. Archived from the original on 1 August 2012.
  3. ^ "Sino-Nepal Treaties, 1960". Nepal Democracy. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Nepal Office. 2001. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
  4. ^ "Leaders of the Nepalese Delegation to the UN General Assembly (1956-2005)". Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2006. Archived from the original on 20 June 2006.
  5. ^ T V R Shenoy (24 February 2005). "India's short-sightedness". Rediff India Abroad. Archived from the original on 2 March 2005.
  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