Dhyan Govinda Ranjit a.k.a. Dhyan Govinda Ranjitkar ( Nepali/

Nepal Bhasa Newar (), or Newari and known officially in Nepal as Nepal Bhasa, is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Newar people, the indigenous inhabitants of Nepal Mandala, which consists of the Kathmandu Valley and surrounding regions in Nepa ...

: ध्यान गोबिन्द रञ्जित) is a

Nepal Nepal (; ne, :ne:नेपाल, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in S ...

ese politician and a leader of

Nepali Congress The Nepali Congress ( ne, नेपाली कांग्रेस ; abbr. NC) is the largest social democratic political party in Nepal. As per the results of recent local election, ''Nepali Congress'' stands as the single largest party of ...

. He is a member of Nepalese constituent assembly/Nepalese Parliament. Ranjit has twice been elected to the

Nepalese Constituent Assembly The Second Constituent Assembly of Nepal, later converted to the Legislature Parliament ( ne, व्यवस्थापिका संसद), was a unicameral legislature of Nepal. It was elected in the 2013 Constituent Assembly elections a ...

from

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constituency on two consecutive elections. He is an elected member of

parliamentary party working committee (Nepali: संसदीय दलको कार्यसमिति) representing Province-3 (Nepali: Pradesh-3). He was a representative of Nepali Congress in work editing committee (Nepali:कार्य व्यवस्था परामर्श समिति) . He is the Past President of

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District Committee of

. Ranjit has been active in Nepalese politics since the "civil disobidience movement" (''bhadra awagya andolan'') in 1954 (2014 ''

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''). He was amongst the first group of activists imprisoned in the

coup d'état A coup d'état (; French for 'stroke of state'), also known as a coup or overthrow, is a seizure and removal of a government and its powers. Typically, it is an illegal seizure of power by a political faction, politician, cult, rebel group, m ...

of 1960 (2017 ''

'') by

King Mahendra Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev ( ne, श्री ५ महाराजाधिराज महेन्द्र वीर विक्रम शाह देव; 11 June 1920 – 31 January 1972) was the King of Nepal from 13 March 1955 until ...

for advocating democracy and supporting elected Prime Minister, Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala. During

's direct rule after coup d'etat of 1960 (1 Poush 2017), he was accused of Sedition (Nepali:राजद्रोह) for trying to establish democratic political system against King's direct autocratic system due to which he was imprisoned for around a decade in various prisons in Nepal and spent many years in exile along with leaders like Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala,

Girija Prasad Koirala Nepal Ratna Girija Prasad Koirala ( ne, गिरिजाप्रसाद कोइराला ; 4 July 1924 – 20 March 2010), affectionately known as Girija Babu, was a Nepalese politician. He headed the Nepali Congress and served as the ...

Ganesh Man Singh Ganesh Man Singh ( Nepali:गणेशमान सिंह) (November 9, 1915 – September 18, 1997) was the leader of the democratic movement of 1990 in Nepal. He is revered as the Father of Democracy and the Iron-man of Nepali politic ...

and

Krishna Prasad Bhattarai Krishna Prasad Bhattarai (Nepali: कृष्णप्रसाद भट्टराई; 13 December 19244 March 2011) also known as Kishunji was a Nepalese political leader. He was one of the main leaders involved in transitioning Nepal from a ...

Early life

Ranjit was born in Majipat,

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to Narayan Govinda Ranjit and Mohan Devi Ranjit. He obtained school level education from J.P. High School. He was arrested at a young age of 17 during King's direct rule of Nepal for supporting democracy. In spite of being in and out of prison for most of his life for advocating freedom and democracy in Nepal, he obtained

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(

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) and studied Master of Public Administration and Bachelor of Law.

Struggle for democracy

Ranjit was active to restore democracy in Nepal during entire 30-year period of autocratic rule by Nepalese Monarchy called as ''Panchayati Regime''. He was one of the founders of

Nepal Student Union Nepal Student Union ( NSU) is one of the major student political wings in Nepal. The Nepal Student Union represents the Nepali Congress, currently the ruling party of Nepal. During the autocratic King's rule (''Panchayati Byawastha''), the unio ...

(Nepali:Nepal Bidhyarthi Sangh) and served in various capacity as leader of Nepal Student Union (Nepali:Nepal Bidhyarthi Sangh) and then banned

. He was one of the main leaders involved in restoration of democracy during king's direct rule in Nepal.

Imprisonment and exile

Ranjit was imprisoned by the partyless Panchayati Government of Nepal for more than ten years for advocating freedom and multi party democracy in Nepal. During the partyless ''Panchayati Regime'' (1960–1990), he spent many years in exile in

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along with Supreme Leader of

. After restoration of democracy, he ran for election for Member of Parliament in 1994 (2051 ''Bikram Sambat'') from Kathmandu Constituency No. 7 on behalf of

Role in Nepalese Constituent Assembly/Nepalese Parliament

Ranjit is an elected member of Nepalese Constituent Assembly/Nepalese Parliament. He has been elected to Constituent Assembly for the second time from Kathmandu constituency in November 2013. He was also elected from the same constituency in 2008. Ranjit was an elected member of the

parliamentary party working committee. He was a representative of

in work editing committee (Nepali: कार्य व्यवस्था परामर्श समिति) of

/Nepalese Parliament, an important committee coordinating all activities of

/Nepalese Parliament. Ranjit represented Nepali Congress in National Interest Preservation Committee, which is a thematic committee of

Social service

Ranjit is advisor to numerous social organizations in Nepal. In the past, he has been elected to the executive committee of Nepal Council of World Affairs.

Other news

In November 2013, Ranjit got elected to Constituent Assembly for the second time from Kathmandu. He was the coordinator of

Mahasamiti preparation committee which successfully carried out preparations for

Mahasamiti meeting held from November 1 to November 3, 2009, in

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. The party has 1,250 representatives in the Mahasamiti, the second powerful body in the party. He was the chief guest in an interaction programme jointly organized by the Russian Center for Science and Culture and the Nepal Council of World Affairs in February 2009. The interaction programme was titled ‘foreign policy of Russia in the present context’ and marked the 200th anniversary of the diplomatic day of Russia. On 29 December 2008, he presented a letter of appreciation to Park Young Seok, a Korean mountaineer who has climbed all of the world's 14 mountains above 8,000 metres. The facilitation programme was organized by Nepal Korea Cooperation Council. He was the chief guest in the programme organized on 16 June 2008 at the Russian Centre of Science and Culture to mark the 45th Anniversary of the Cosmos Flight by the world's first woman cosmonaut Valentina Terehkova (i.e. on June 16, 1963). In April 2008 he won the Kathmandu-9 seat in the Constituent Assembly election, under the first-past-the-post (FPTP) system. He was the Coordinator of the Martyrs Day Main Organising Committee 2063 (2007) to mark Martyrs Day in Nepal. In the past, he served as the head of seven party alliance delegates overseeing the activities of the city.

References

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Early life

Struggle for democracy

Imprisonment and exile

Role in Nepalese Constituent Assembly/Nepalese Parliament

Social service

Other news

See also

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