Rishi Devkota alias Azad (आजाद), 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 communist leader. He was a Central Committee

Central Committee

Central Committee was the common designation of a standing administrative body of communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, whether ruling or non-ruling in the twentieth century and of the surviving, mostly Trotskyist, states in the early twenty first. In such party organizations the...

 member of the Communist Party of Nepal (Fourth Convention), but resigned from the party in 1980, accusing it of reformism

Reformism

Reformism is the belief that gradual democratic changes in a society can ultimately change a society's fundamental economic relations and political structures...

 and being soft on Soviet social imperialism. He formed a group known as the 'Rebel Unity Centre

Rebel Unity Centre

The Rebel Unity Centre was a communist grouping in Nepal, formed after Rishi Devkota split away from the Communist Party of Nepal in 1980. In November 1981, the group merged into the Communist Party of Nepal ....

' around him. Devkota was captured by police in February 1981, and killed two days later in Bhiman, Sindhuli District

Sindhuli District

-Historical Importance:This place has a huge historic significance. The Sindhuli Gadhi in Sindhuli is the place where British soldiers were defeated for the first time in Asia in 1767 A.D . The British under the leadership of Captain Kinloch came to help the then ruler of Kathmandu, Jai Prakash...

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Rishi Devkota was married to Goma Devkota, who was Member of Parliament for a period.

Book

In 2003 Nara Bahadur Karmacharya

Nara Bahadur Karmacharya

Nara Bahadur Karmacharya is a Nepalese communist politician, belonging to Communist Party of Nepal . Karmacharya is one of the most senior political leaders of the communist movement in Nepal being the only surviving founding member of the Communist Party of Nepal, which had been born in...

released a book titled Murder of Ajad: undeclared death penalty, a publication dealing with the killing of Rishi Devkota.