Rishi Devkota ( ne, ऋषि देवकोटा), alias Azad (आजाद), was a

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...

ese communist leader. He was a

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member of the

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, but resigned from the party in 1980, accusing it of

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and being soft on

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. He formed a group known as the ' Rebel Unity Centre' around him. Devkota was captured by police in February 1981, and killed two days later in Bhiman,

Sindhuli District Sindhuli District ( ne, सिन्धुली जिल्ला), a part of the Bagmati Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. The district, with Sindhulimadhi Kamalamai as its district ...

.Rawal, Bhim. ''The Communist Movement in Nepal: Origin and Development''.

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: Accham-Kathmandu Contact Forum, 2007. p. 86, Chart no. 1. Rishi Devkota was married to Goma Devkota, who was Member of Parliament for a period.His son Subash Devkota is a noted journalist in Nepal.
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In 2003

Nara Bahadur Karmacharya Nara Bahadur Karmacharya ( ne, नरबहादुर कर्माचार्य; October 30, 1924 – July 24, 2013) was a Nepalese communist politician, belonging to Communist Party of Nepal (Unity Centre-Masal). Karmacharya was one of ...

released a book titled ''Murder of Ajad: undeclared death penalty'', a publication dealing with the killing of Rishi Devkota.

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