Narayan Singh Pun was a Nepal

Nepal

Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...

ese politician. Prior to starting his political career, he had been a helicopter pilot and lieutenant colonel

Lieutenant colonel

Lieutenant colonel is a rank of commissioned officer in the armies and most marine forces and some air forces of the world, typically ranking above a major and below a colonel. The rank of lieutenant colonel is often shortened to simply "colonel" in conversation and in unofficial correspondence...

 in the Royal Nepal Army.

He was elected to the Pratinidhi Sabha in the 1999 election on behalf of the Nepali Congress

Nepali Congress

The Nepali Congress is a Nepalese political party. Nepali Congress led the 1950 Democratic Movement which successfully ended the Rana dynasty and allowed commoners to take part in the polity. It again led a democratic movement in 1990, in partnership with leftist forces, to end monarchy and...

. He was later expelled from the party on the grounds of collaborating with the king. He later founded the Nepal Samata Party

Nepal Samata Party

Nepal Samata Party is a political party in Nepal. The party is registered with the Election Commission of Nepal ahead of the 2008 Constituent Assembly election. It was led by Narayan Singh Pun, but after Pun's death the chairmanship has been taken over by Pasang Goparma Sharma. Moti Prasad Rana...

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Narayan Singh Pun died at a hospital in New Delhi, India, on February 21, 2008, from an infection that had emerged after a kidney transplant. He was 59 years old.