Madan Kumar Bhandari
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Madan Kumar Bhandari was born in Taplejung in 1952. He studied in Varanasi, India and in 1972 was named central committee member of the Janabadi Sanskritik Morcha (Democratic Cultural Front), a student's movement launched by Pushpa Lal Shrestha. Around 1976 he left Pushpa Lal's Communist Party of Nepal to launch the Mukti Morcha Samuha ("Liberation Front Group"), which formed an alliance with the survivors of the Jhapa Movement in 1978. He was a founder member of the Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) preceding the 1980 referendum and was elected general secretary at its fourth national in 1986.
When CPN(ML) merged into Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) in 1991, Bhandari became the general secretary. Bhandari was the engineer behind the programme of CPN(UML), People's Multiparty Democracy.
In 1993 Bhandari died, supposedly in a car crash. Many believe he was murdered. Among the three passengers inside the car, only the driver Amar lama survived and two leaders Madan Bhandari and Jeev Raj Ashrit were dead. People were suspicious if there was any coup. The then government formed a probe committee but officially the car crash was reported as an incident. Later the driver Amar Lama was dead most probably by a gunman hired by the same people who had paid hime or persuaded him to kill the popular leaders in 1993.
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