Sahana Pradhan (Nepali: साहाना प्रधान) (17 June 1927 – 22 September 2014) was a

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ese politician from a Newar family in

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. She resigned as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nepal on April 16, 2008. She also served as

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of Nepal within the coalition government of

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from 2007 to 2008. Pradhan was married to communist stalwart

Pushpa Lal Shrestha Pushpa Lal Shrestha ( ne, पुष्पलाल श्रेष्ठ) (1924 – 22 July 1978) was a Nepali politician, considered to be the father of Nepali communism. He was the founding general secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal as ...

, and was a leading figure in his

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. When Pushpa Lal died in 1978,

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became party leader. In 1986 Pradhan became the leader of the party. In 1987 the party merged with Manmohan Adhikari's faction, forming the

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

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: Accham-Kathmandu Contact Forum, 2007. p. 82. When the CPN(UML) was divided in 1998, Pradhan sided with the break-away faction. She became chairperson of Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist). However, in 2002 CPN(ML) merged back into CPN(UML). At the 2003 7th conference of CPN(UML), Pradhan was reelected to the Central Committee. Pradhan was the number two candidate of CPN(UML) in the

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list for the April 2008 Constituent Assembly election.

Died

Sahara pradhan died of a brain hemorrhage on 22 September 2014 at the age of 87 in the Vayodha Hospital in Kathmandu.

References

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