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paying proper respect to Jha's sacrifice. This disregard has hurt the local sentiment, which they say hails in the government's pro-hill ethnic policies. Similar example is seen in erecting a statue of
Bhanubhakta (a poet who translated Ramayan in Nepali) at Bhanu Chowk in Janakpur instead of a multitude of Maithili laureates.
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Durganand Jha was proposed to replace King Mahendra in 1993, but his majesty government of Nepal within King Mahendra's son, King Birendra disapproved the proposal. The democratic party which won the general election after the fall of Panchayat dictatorship sustained Kings position on not
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Durganand Jha was expressed quietly, only to the teenage wife. Today Durgananda Jha is hailed as one of the greatest martyrs in southern Nepal. Legend has it that King himself told Jha that he would spare his life for an apology to which Durganand replied that the king
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He is also considered as the first republican martyr of Nepal. Jha threw a bomb saying King
Mahendra had scuttled democracy by dissolving the popularly elected parliament and imposing a direct rule. Jha soon went into exile in India, but did not think it right to be in exile when 59 people were
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