{"id":22250,"date":"2025-05-06T22:04:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T16:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=22250"},"modified":"2025-05-06T22:04:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T16:19:20","slug":"former-minister-pradip-nepal-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/former-minister-pradip-nepal-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Minister Pradip Nepal no more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, May 6: Communist leader and former minister Pradip Nepal passed away this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Suffering from Parkinson&#8217;s disease for some years, leader Nepal breathed his last at Norvic Hospital in Kathmandu, UML parliamentary party&#8217;s chief whip Mahesh Bartaula said.<\/p>\n<p>Nepal served as the Minister for Information and Communications in the country&#8217;s first communist government led by then Prime Minister Manmohan Adhikari.<br \/>\nLikewise, leader Nepal took charge of Ministry of Water Resources and Ministry of Education during his political journey.<\/p>\n<p>The former politburo member of the CPN (UML), leader Nepal served as the spokesperson and chief of publicity department of the UML.<\/p>\n<p>Also an established literary figure, leader Nepal used to write his opinions and literary creations in the name of Sanjaya Thapa when he was underground during the Panchayat era.<\/p>\n<p>With multiple feathers in his hat, Nepal served as the Editor of Nabayug, Chhalphal and Prakash weeklies and used to write for different newspapers as a columnist.<br \/>\nLeader Nepal was born in 2010 BS at Gogane village in Bhojpur district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, May 6: Communist leader and former minister Pradip Nepal passed away this afternoon. Suffering from Parkinson&#8217;s disease for some years, leader Nepal breathed his last at Norvic Hospital in Kathmandu, UML parliamentary party&#8217;s chief whip Mahesh Bartaula said. Nepal served as the Minister for Information and Communications in the country&#8217;s first communist government led [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22252,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22250\/revisions\/22252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}