Kathmandu : The 43rd memorial day of the founding general secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal Pushpalal Shrestha is being celebrated today. Pushpalal, who founded the Communist Party of Nepal with the aim of establishing rights for the people through the Communist Party of Nepal.

He passed away on July 21, 1978. Pushpalal, known as the ideologue of the Nepali revolution, had fought for the freedom of the people’s right all his life. Pushpalal founded the Communist Party of Nepal on April 22, 1949 along with Nara Bahadur Karmacharya, Niranjan Govind Vaidya, Narayan Vilas Joshi and Motidevi Shrestha. The CPN, he founded has split into different communist parties at different stages.

He also translated and published the World Communist Manifesto in Nepali in 1949. Pushpalal was born in Bhangeri, Ramechhap on 15 Asar, 1981BS.