Kathmandu, November 8
Bir Bahadur Lama, a leader of the CPN-UML, the party which merged with the then CPN-Maoist Centre to form the ruling Nepal Communist Party in 2018, has died.
Lama, the then central committee member of the party, had also represented Makawanpur’s number 2 constituency to the House of Representatives after the 1999 elections.
Lama was suffering from pneumonia and an kidney ailment. He breathed his last in the course of treatment at Patan Hospital at around 4 am today, according to family sources.
He was admitted to the hospital on Monday last week after he experienced symptoms of pneumonia. The family had also suspected the coronavirus infection in him, but he had tested negative.
In the late 1970s, 15 leaders of the then communist party including CP Mainali, Pradeep Nepal and Gopal Shakya had broken the Nakhkhu jail in Lalitpur and run away. Lama was one among them.
