{"id":"mohan-chandra-adhikari","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mohan-chandra-adhikari","language":"en","name":"Mohan Chandra Adhikari","name_en":"Mohan Chandra Adhikari","name_ne":null,"description":"Nepalese politician","headline":"Nepalese politician","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Mohan Chandra Adhikari (Nepali: मोहनचन्द्र अधिकारी) is a former communist politician in Nepal. He is from a Brahmin family in Morang District. Adhikari studied B.A., but didn'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.","summary_more":["Adhikari 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."],"facts":[{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"politician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6893522#P106"}},{"key":"party","label":"Political party","values":[{"text":"Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist–Leninist)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2744730"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6893522#P102"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"Member of the Parliament of Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19694523"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6893522#P39"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohan_Chandra_Adhikari","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6893522"],"faq":[{"q":"What positions has Mohan Chandra Adhikari held?","a":"Positions held by Mohan Chandra Adhikari include: Member of the Parliament of Nepal."}],"related":[{"name":"Ram Baran Yadav","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ram-baran-yadav"},{"name":"K. P. Sharma Oli","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/k-p-sharma-oli"},{"name":"Pushpa Kamal Dahal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pushpa-kamal-dahal"},{"name":"Ram Chandra Paudel","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ram-chandra-paudel"},{"name":"Sushil Koirala","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/sushil-koirala"},{"name":"Surya Bahadur Thapa","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/surya-bahadur-thapa"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/mohan-chandra-adhikari-fd374f4e0f.jpg","width":200,"height":150,"license":"CC BY-SA 3.0","credit":"Ltdiwas","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mohan_Chandra_Adhikari.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Mohan Chandra Adhikari","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohan_Chandra_Adhikari","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q6893522","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6893522","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Mohan Chandra Adhikari.jpg by Ltdiwas (CC BY-SA 3.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mohan_Chandra_Adhikari.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Mohan Chandra Adhikari, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Mohan Chandra Adhikari.jpg — Ltdiwas, CC BY-SA 3.0.","cite":"\"Mohan Chandra Adhikari\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/mohan-chandra-adhikari. Retrieved 3 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T15:28:16Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-03","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/mohan-chandra-adhikari","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/mohan-chandra-adhikari","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/mohan-chandra-adhikari?lang=ne"}}