Latest Jhapa uprising News & Updates

Kathmandu, March 6 (IANS) The rise and fall of Nepal’s former Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli can be traced between two uprisings set apart by over half a century. The 74-year-old’s political identity was crafted long before he became prime minister. He first came to national attention as a young activist in the Jhapa uprising, a radical Leftist movement in the early 1970s that challenged local landlords and state authority in eastern Nepal, bordering India.Over decades he moved from…