Surya Prasad Upadhyaya

Surya Prasad Upadhyaya

Surya Prasad Upadhyaya, a Nepalese politician. Upadhyaya was a leader of the Nepal Democratic Congress, which merged with into the Nepali Congress in 1950. [ [http://www.nepalnews.com.np/contents/englishweekly/spotlight/2002/jun/jun21/coverstory.htm Cover Story (Spotlight Weekly) ] ]

Upadhyaya became Home and Law Minister in the Nepali Congress cabinet after the 1959 election. [ [http://www.nepaldemocracy.org/documents/treaties_agreements/sino-nepal_treaty1969.htm Sino-Nepal Treaties, 1960 ] ] He led the Nepalese delegation at the 1959 UN General Assembly. [ [http://www.mofa.gov.np/nepalun/statement9.php Ministry of Foreign Affairs ] ] During the December 1960 royal coup d'etat, he was arrested along with B.P. Koirala and Ganesh Man Singh. [ [http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/feb/25flip.htm India's short-sightedness ] ]

In 1978 he took part in a split in the Nepali Congress, and he and Bakhan Singh Gurung founded the Nepali Congress (Subarna). [Phadnis, Urmila. " [http://www.jstor.org/stable/2756788 Nepal: The Politics of Referendum] ", published in "Pacific Affairs", Vol. 54, No. 3, (Autumn, 1981), pp. 431-454]

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