{"id":"ram-raja-prasad-singh","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ram-raja-prasad-singh","language":"en","name":"Ram Raja Prasad Singh","name_en":"Ram Raja Prasad Singh","name_ne":"रामराजाप्रसाद सिंह","description":"Nepalese politician (1936-2012)","headline":"Nepalese politician (1936-2012)","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Ram Raja Prasad Singh (Nepali: राम राजा प्रसाद सिंह) (1936 – 12 September 2012) was a Nepalese politician. In July 2008, Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), a Nepalese political party which merged with other communist parties and renamed to Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Centre) नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (माओवादी)केन्द्र, or CPN(M-C), proposed Singh as their candidate in the first presidential election in the country.","summary_more":["Singh was born in 1936, in the Saptari district. His father, Jaya Mangal Prasad Singh, was landlord of Indian origin. In 1942, Indian socialist leaders Jayaprakash Narayan and Ram Manohar Lohia visited Nepal to gain support for the Quit India Movement and organise a guerrilla army to fight against British colonial rule. The two stayed at Singh's household, when he was seven years old. Nepali police discovered a cache of rifles in the forest and arrested Lohia and Narayan, along with three other comrades. Singh's father and the remaining guerrilla soldiers attacked the detention centre and freed the guerillas. His father was later arrested and sentenced for the killing of two policemen during the raid. Ram Raja and his brother Laxman were imprisoned alongside their father. They were released after India's independence.","Singh went on to study law at Delhi University. He met Latin American revolutionary leader Che Guevara while studying at the university. Guevara advised Singh to take up guerrilla struggle in Nepal.","Singh, a young Supreme Court lawyer, contested one of the four graduate seats in the 1971 Rastriya Panchayat election. He won the seat on a platform of restoring parliamentary democracy in Nepal, and his victory was seen as a humiliation for the regime. Whilst several other candidates for the graduate seats had declared their wish for gradual democratic reforms (17 candidates contested on a common reformist platform), Singh was the sole…"],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"1936","date":"1936"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1430025#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q837"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1430025#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"12 September 2012","date":"2012-09-12"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1430025#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Kathmandu","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3037","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/kathmandu"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1430025#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q837"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1430025#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"politician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1430025#P106"}},{"key":"party","label":"Political party","values":[{"text":"Nepal Janabadi Morcha","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6994363"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1430025#P102"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"University of Delhi","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q665105"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1430025#P69"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Raja_Prasad_Singh","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%B9","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1430025"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Ram Raja Prasad Singh born?","a":"Ram Raja Prasad Singh was born on 1936 in Nepal."},{"q":"Where did Ram Raja Prasad Singh study?","a":"Ram Raja Prasad Singh was educated at University of Delhi."}],"related":[{"name":"Tenzing Norgay","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/tenzing-norgay"},{"name":"Suman Pokhrel","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/suman-pokhrel"},{"name":"Manisha Koirala","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/manisha-koirala"},{"name":"Gyanendra of Nepal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/gyanendra-of-nepal"},{"name":"Birendra of Nepal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/birendra-of-nepal"},{"name":"Nirmal Purja","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/nirmal-purja"},{"name":"Dipendra of Nepal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/dipendra-of-nepal"},{"name":"Udit Narayan","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/udit-narayan"},{"name":"Śuddhodana","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/suddhodana"},{"name":"Mahendra of Nepal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mahendra-of-nepal"},{"name":"Chandra Bahadur Dangi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/chandra-bahadur-dangi"},{"name":"Tribhuvan of Nepal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/tribhuvan-of-nepal"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/ram-raja-prasad-singh-ea7066fc35.jpg","width":400,"height":450,"license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","credit":"CesarNS1980","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ram_Raja_Prasad_Singh.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Ram Raja Prasad Singh","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Raja_Prasad_Singh","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): रामराजाप्रसाद सिंह","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%B9","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q1430025","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1430025","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Ram Raja Prasad Singh.jpg by CesarNS1980 (CC BY-SA 4.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ram_Raja_Prasad_Singh.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 Ram Raja Prasad Singh, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Ram Raja Prasad Singh.jpg — CesarNS1980, CC BY-SA 4.0.","cite":"\"Ram Raja Prasad Singh\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/ram-raja-prasad-singh. Retrieved 9 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T10:00:46Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-08","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/ram-raja-prasad-singh","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/ram-raja-prasad-singh","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/ram-raja-prasad-singh?lang=ne"}}