{"id":47896,"date":"2026-05-17T08:48:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T03:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=47896"},"modified":"2026-05-17T08:48:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T03:03:04","slug":"today-marks-33rd-madan-ashrit-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/today-marks-33rd-madan-ashrit-memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Today marks 33rd Madan-Ashrit Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, May 17: Today marks the 33rd Memorial Day for Madan Kumar Bhandari, the former general secretary of the CPN (UML), and Jeevraj Ashrit, head of the Organization Department.<\/p>\n<p>The CPN (UML) is commemorating this occasion with various programmes across the country, including memorial meetings and seminars. Key events are taking place at Madannagar Balkhu and the Madan Bhandari Memorial Foundation in Gothatar, where discussions on the contributions of Bhandari and Ashrit will be held.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the memorial activities include tree planting, blood donation drives, health camps, and the distribution of fruits to hospital patients.<\/p>\n<p>Bhandari and Ashrit tragically lost their lives in a car accident in Dasthdhunga, Chitwan, on 3rd Jestha 2050 BS.<\/p>\n<p>Bhandari is remembered as a significant figure in the movement for multi-party democracy, emerging from a communist ideology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, May 17: Today marks the 33rd Memorial Day for Madan Kumar Bhandari, the former general secretary of the CPN (UML), and Jeevraj Ashrit, head of the Organization Department. The CPN (UML) is commemorating this occasion with various programmes across the country, including memorial meetings and seminars. Key events are taking place at Madannagar Balkhu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47896","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\/47896"}],"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=47896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47899,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47896\/revisions\/47899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}