Keshar Jung Rayamajhi
Keshar Jung Rayamajhi( 1919 – 17 December 2012) was a Nepalese politician.
He was a leading figure in the communist movement in the country, but later turned into a royalist.
Rayamajhi hails from a landlord Chhetri family in Tansen, Palpa district.
In 1947 Rayamajhi became a founding member of the Nepalese' Marxist Study Circle' in Calcutta.
In 1948, the group was reconstructed as the' Progressive Study Circle' and Rayamajhi became its secretary.
During his stay in Calcutta, Rayamajhi's political mentor was the CPI leader Ratna Lal Brahmin.
At the first congress of the Communist Party of Nepal, held in 1954, Rayamajhi was elected to the Central Committee of the party.
In September 1956, the general secretary of the party, Manmohan Adhikari, travelled to China to take part in the congress of the Communist Party of China.
As Pushpa Lal Shrestha and D.P. Adhikari declined to take the role of acting general secretary, Rayamajhi expressed his interest in taking over as acting general secretary of the party.
Directly after Rayamajhi became acting general secretary of the party, groupism began to appear amongst the party ranks.
The party became divided into a reformist camp( led by Rayamajhi) and a revolutionary camp( led by Pushpa Lal Shrestha).
During the second party congress held in 1957, Manmohan Adhikari was undergoing treatment for skin disease in China.
In his absence, Rayamajhi was elected general secretary of the party.
At the congress, Rayamajhi argued for supporting constitutional monarchy.
Soon after the congress, accusations that Rayamajhi had secret links to the royal palace began to surface within the party.
Rayamajhi was one of the CPN candidates that contested the 1959 parliamentary election, but was defeated in his constituency.
In the election the party got less than 4% of the seats in the parliament.
Rayamajhi received severe criticism for the electoral defeat of the party after the election.
In November 1960 Rayamajhi travelled to Moscow to take part in the International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties.
During Rayamajhi's stay in the Soviet Union the King retook direct rule in Nepal.
Rayamajhi sent a message from Moscow stating that the dissolution of the parliament was a' progressive step'.
Under the new order in Nepal the CPN was banned.
After his return to Nepal in January 1961, Rayamajhi called for lifting the ban on political parties.
But at the same time he continued for argue in favour of guided democracy and constitutional monarchy.
In March 1961 a plenum of the party was held in Darbhanga( India).
The plenum decided to remove Rayamajhi from the position as general secretary.
Instead a central secretariat consisting of Rayamajhi, D.P. Adhikari and Shambhuram Shrestha was formed to run the party.
In April 1962 the sector of CPN led by Tulsi Lal Amatya and Pushpa Lal Shrestha held a third party congress, which the sector around Rayamajhi did not recognize.
The congress decided to expel Rayamajhi from the party.
Rayamajhi and his followers continued to function as a party though.
Effectively the CPN was divided into two separate parties, a CPN led by Amatya and a CPN led by Rayamajhi.
The Rayamajhi group held its own third party congress in 1967, and elected Rayamajhi as general secretary.
In 1979 a section of the party, led by Bishnu Bahadur Manandhar, revolted against Rayamajhi's membership in the royal Rajsabha and his soft line towards the monarchy.
Manandhar eventually left the party in 1981, taking a large section of its membership with him.
Two years later the party held its fifth congress, which elected Rayamajhi chairman and Krishna Raj Burma general secretary.
In September 1983 Rayamajhi was expelled from the party by Burma for being a royalist.
Rayamajhi then reorganised his followers into a new CPN, in which he was elected general secretary.
Eventually this new CPN also expelled him around 1986.
Rayamajhi was included in the interim government after the 1990 Jana Andolan(' People's Movement') as Minister of Education.
He was also appointed to the three- member Cabinet Committee to oversee the constitutional proposal of the Constitution Recommendations Commission, representing the King.
Rayamajhi contested the Kathmandu- 3 constituency in the 1991 parliamentary election, on behalf of his new party Janata Dal( Samajbadi Prajatantrik).
Rayamajhi finished eight in the constituency.
Rayamajhi went on to become the chairman of the Royal Privy Council.
In his function as chairman of the council, Rayamajhi oversaw the dramatic change in the royal house that followed the Nepalese royal massacre and the coronation of Gyanendra Shah.
On November 13, 2002, Maoist rebels carried out an armed attack on the residence of Rayamajhi.
In November 2003, Maoists attacked his ancestral home.
Ganesh Lal Shrestha
Ganesh Lal Shrestha
( Devanagari: गणेशलाल श्रेष्ठ)( July 1911 – 24 July 1985) was a Nepalese poet, musician and social worker.
He wrote in Nepali, Nepal Bhasa and Tamang languages.
His songs denounced the social inequalities and autocratic political system of the day.
Nati Kaji
Nati Kaji or Natikaji or Nati Kaji Shrestha, born Amrit Lal Shrestha( 25 December 1925 – 2 November 2003) was a Nepali singer and songwriter.
Kaji's hit songs were Nepali Hami( We Nepalese) which describes about Nepalese people.
Pushpa Lal Shrestha
Pushpa Lal Shrestha( 1924 – 22 July 1978) was a Nepali politician, considered to be the father of Nepali communism.
He was the founding general secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal as well as leader.
Sho Sakurai
Sakurai began his career in the entertainment industry when he joined the Japanese talent agency Johnny& Associates in 1995 at the age of 13.
About seven years after his debut as a singer with Arashi in 1999, he became a newscaster in 2006, appearing in the news program" News Zero" every Monday.
In 2008, he was appointed the official newscaster for the news coverage of the Olympic Games in Beijing on NTV.
For his work as an actor, singer and newscaster, Sakurai became one of the recipients of GQ Japan's Men of the Year award in 2009.
His father is Shun Sakurai, former vice- minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
Ali Asgar (actor)
Ali Asgar is an Indian actor and stand- up comedian.
He has appeared in many Indian TV serials and movies.
Asgar appeared as Kamal Agarwal in Star Plus TV show" Kahaani Ghar Ghar Ki".
He also appeared in SAB TV's show F.I.R. as Inspector Raj Aryan.
He is commonly known for his role in Colors TV show" Comedy Nights with Kapil" as Dadi and Pushpa Nani in" The Kapil Sharma Show.
Sahana Pradhan
Sahana Pradhan( 17 June 1927 – 22 September 2014) was a Nepalese politician from a Newar family in Kathmandu.
She resigned as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nepal on April 16, 2008.
She also served as Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal within the coalition government of Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala from 2007 to 2008.
Pradhan was married to communist stalwart Pushpa Lal Shrestha, and was a leading figure in his Communist Party of Nepal.
When Pushpa Lal died in 1978, Balaram Upadhyaya became party leader.
In 1986 Pradhan became the leader of the party.
In 1987 the party merged with Manmohan Adhikari's faction, forming the Communist Party of Nepal( Marxist) When the CPN( UML) was divided in 1998, Pradhan sided with the break- away faction.
She became chairperson of Communist Party of Nepal( Marxist- Leninist).
However, in 2002 CPN( ML) merged back into CPN( UML).
At the 2003 7th conference of CPN( UML), Pradhan was reelected to the Central Committee.
Pradhan was the number two candidate of CPN( UML) in the proportional representation list for the April 2008 Constituent Assembly election.
Pradhan died of a brain hemorrhage on 22 September 2014 at the age of 86 in at Vayodha Hospital in Kathmandu.
Mohan Chandra Adhikari
Mohan Chandra Adhikari is a former communist politician in Nepal.
He hails from a Brahmin family in Morang District.
Adhikari studied up to B.A. level, but did n't appear in the final exams.
Adhikari had been a follower of Pushpa Lal Shrestha, but turned more radical than his mentor.
Adhikari became a leader of the group in the Jhapa District Committee of the Communist Party which in the early 1970s intended to initiate a rebellion on the lines of the Naxalite insurgency in India.
Adhikar was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment.
He was saved from death sentence through a royal pardon.
Whilst in jail, he was associated with the Communist Party of Nepal( Marxist- Leninist).
Adhikari would spend 17 years in prison.
He was sometimes called the' Nelson Mandela' of Nepal.
After being released from jail, Adhikari became an advisory- member of the Communist Party of Nepal( Unified Marxist- Leninist).
He also represented the party in the Upper House of Parliament.
He was arrested during the 2006 Loktantra Andolan.
Adhikari later broke with communism, and became a Hindu leader.
After the declaration of Nepal as a secular state, Adhikari participated in a meeting organised by the Shivsena Nepal.
Durga Lal Shrestha
Durga Lal Shrestha( Nepal Bhasa: दुर्गालाल श्रेष्ठ)( b. July 1937) is a famous poet of Nepal Bhasa and Nepali.
Some people brand him as a progressive litterateur.
He is honored as Janakavi or people's poet in Nepal Bhasa.
Gangalal Shrestha
Ganga Lal Shrestha
( Devanagari: गंगालाल श्रेष्ठ)( 1919 – 28 January 1941) was a Nepalese revolutionary who was executed by the autocratic Rana regime.
He is honoured as one of the four martyrs of the Nepalese revolution.
He was a member of the clandestine political organisation named Nepal Praja Parishad that started a movement in 1939 to remove the Rana oligarchy and establish democracy in Nepal.

Question: Were Sho Sakurai and Pushpa Lal Shrestha of the same nationality?
Answer: no