Kathmandu, Aug 1: President Ramchandra Paudel has said that Pushpalal Shrestha has made an important contribution to transform the Nepali communists into the democratic process.
Addressing the Pushpalal National Award-2080 Handover Ceremony organized at the Office of the President, Sheetal Niwas, today, he described Pushpalal as a supreme, talented, honest and visionary leader of Nepali politics.
The Head of the State recalled Pushpalal’s contribution to the democratic movement of Nepal. He said, “Pushpalal’s recognition that the contradictions and the crisis in society can be resolved through the democratic process only and not through violence was in itself a significant proposal for the communist movement at that time, and this paved the way for an important ideological way to transform the Nepali communists into the democratic process.
According to the President, Pushpalal made a deep analysis of the economic structure, classes, production system and production of Nepali society, and thereby contributing to the well-thought archiving of the contradictions of society.
He recalled Pushpalal as a noble leader, writer and philosopher. President Paudel opined that it became possible to reinstate multi-party democracy in 2046 BS (1991) after the Nepali Congress and the Left Front joined hands in line with Pushpalal’s thinking that the anti-Panchayat forces should together wage a struggle for establishing democracy in the country.
Reminiscing his meeting with Pushpalal in Banares, India, the President said, “He (Pushpalal) equally loved the Congress and Communist activists waging struggle against Panchayat autocracy. We had gone to meet Pushpalal when we were in Banares to meet with BP Koirala. We talked about political movement. Pushpalal suggested us to contact Hiranya Lal Shrestha when we asked him whom to contact in Kathmandu for the movement. He also reminded us to tell Hiranya that Mailadai (Pushpalal) asked us to contact him.”
