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connection with any political party they worked for three years. Her profession as a teacher helped her to participate in those activities as she could tell her parents that she would go to villages for her school work.
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and others, organized a secret conference of women cadres of the CPN (ML) in
Hetauda, where All Nepal Women Association was reformed to become more active. In this conference Shanta Manavi was elected as a president.
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