Narayan Man Bijukchhe (, party name 'Rohit';Parajulee, Ramjee P.
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ese politician. Bijukchhe is the

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of the

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Life and career

Bijukchhe was born in Sukuldhoka, Nepal. He became a

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sympathizer after seeing the relief work of

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cadres during floods in

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around 1954. Around 1956 he joined the Students Federation and became a Communist Party member the following year. Bijukchhe became a prominent figure in the agrarian struggles in the Dhanusa, Parsa and Rautahat districts. In 1961 he became the president of the Students Union at

Bhaktapur Bhaktapur (Nepali language, Nepali and Sanskrit: भक्तपुर, ; "City of Devotees"), known locally as Khwopa (Nepal Bhasa: , ) and historically called Bhadgaon, is a city in the east corner of the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal located abou ...

College. In the early 1970s, Bijukchhe became a Central Committee member of

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. He was put in charge of the Bagmati, Narayani and Janakpur zone. He went against the leadership of Pushpa Lal Shrestha. Bijukchhe criticized the decision of Pushpa Lal and the party to support the Indian intervention in

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, the policy of seeking cooperation with

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and the failure of the party to condemn the

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as an imperialist power. In 1975 he founded the Nepal Workers and Peasants Organisation (which later became the Nepal Workers and Peasants Party). The influence of the group remained largely confined to Bhaktapur, but in that area it became successful in mobilizing tenants and gaining influence inside ''panchayat'' institutions. During the 1990s, Bijukchhe was elected to parliament three times, in 1991, 1994 and 1999. In 2006, Bijukchhe was one of the signatories of the historic agreement between the

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and the

. In the

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, Bijukchhe won the Bhaktapur-1 seat with 19,972 votes, thus having won a seat in all national elections since the 1990 ''

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''. Bijukchhe has emerged as a strong critic of the proposal to divide Nepal into ethnic and linguistic states, arguing that such a federalist concept might produce violent conflicts. On June 12, 2010, Bijukchhe withdrew his support to the coalition government led by

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. He was a member of the

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. He won the Bhaktapur–1 seat in the 2013 Constituent Assembly election as a candidate of the Nepal Workers and Peasants Party. In 2017 November, he said he had decided not to contest in the

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as he wanted to give chance to the new generation of leaders.

Visits in North Korea

Bijukche has visited

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four times on the invitation of the latter's government. Portraits of

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and

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are hanged in his office alongside these of

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and Mao. Bhaktapur residents have questioned the relevance of North Korean ideology (

Juche ''Juche'', officially the ''Juche'' idea, is a component of Ideology of the Workers' Party of Korea#Kimilsungism–Kimjongilism, Kimilsungism–Kimjongilism, the state ideology of North Korea and the official ideology of the Workers' Party o ...

) imported to Nepal - Juche is part of the ideology of NWPP.

References

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