Nara Bahadur Karmacharya (Nepali: नरबहादुर कर्माचार्य) is a Nepalese communist politician, belonging to Communist Party of Nepal (Unity Centre-Masal).^[1] 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 1949.^[2][3] Nepali (Khaskura) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Nepal, Bhutan, and some parts of India and Myanmar (Burma). ... This article is about communism as a form of society and as a political movement. ... Communist Party of Nepal (Unity Centre-Masal), a communist political party in Nepal. ... Current groups Defunct groups Related articles The Communist Party of Nepal (Nepali: ) was founded in Calcutta, India, on April 29, 1949. ...

Karmacharya hails from a Newar petty bourgeois family in Lalitpur.^[4] Karmacharya had joined the Nepalese 'Marxist Study Circle' in Calcutta, India, in 1947.^[5] He was also linked to the Nepali Democratic Congress prior to the founding of the Communist Party of Nepal.^[6] The Newar or Newah are the indigenous group of Nepals Kathmandu valley. ... Petit-bourgeois or Anglicised petty bourgeois is a French term that reffered to the members of the lower middle social-classes. ... Lalitpur is a city and district of Uttar Pradesh state, India. ... This article is on Calcutta/Kolkata, the city. ...

In January 1954 the first congress of CPN was held. Karmacharya was elected to the Central Committee of the party. After the conclusion of the congress, Karmacharya travelled together with Ram Bahadur Shrestha to China as a delegation of the All Nepal Trade Union. They were invited by the Chinese trade union movement to celebrate May Day there. The two stayed in China for 35 days.^[7] Central Committee most commonly refers to the central executive unit of a communist party, whether ruling or non-ruling. ... May Day is a name for various holidays celebrated on May 1 (or in the beginning of May). ...

Karmacharya would later join the Communist Party of Nepal (Fourth Convention). When CPN(4th Convention) was divided in 1983, he stayed in the party with Nirmal Lama.^[8] The Communist Party of Nepal (Fourth Convention) was a communist party in Nepal. ...

After the victory of the 1990 Jana Andolan, Karmacharya was awarded a piece of land in compensation of his struggles against the Rana regime.^[9] It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Democracy movement in Nepal. ... Look up rana, Rana in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

When CPN(4th Convention) merged into Communist Party of Nepal (Unity Centre) in 1990, Karmacharya became a member of the new party. In November 1991 he became the president of the advisory committee of the party.^[10] Communist Party of Nepal (Unity Centre), a communist party in Nepal. ...

In 1992 he became the convenor of the 'Mao Centenary Organising Committee', a committee formed to comemorate the centenary of the birth of Mao Zedong.^[11] Mao redirects here. ...

In 2003 he released the book Murder of Ajad: undeclared death penalty, a publication dealing with the killing of communist leader Rishi Devkota in 1981.^[12]

In the April 2008 Constituent Assembly election, Karmacharya was a candidate of Janamorcha Nepal in the proportional representation system.^[13] Elections for a Constituent Assembly will be held in Nepal in 2008 at an unspecified date,[1] possibly in March or April,[2] after having been postponed from the earlier dates of 20 June 2007[3] and 22 November 2007. ... Janamorcha Nepal (Nepali: , Peoples Front Nepal) was founded in 2002 as the mass organisation and electoral front of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unity Centre-Masal). ... Proportional representation (sometimes referred to as full representation, or PR), is a category of electoral formula aiming at a close match between the percentage of votes that groups of candidates (grouped by a certain measure) obtain in elections and the percentage of seats they receive (usually in legislative assemblies). ...

In June 2008, his name was mentioned as one of the potential presidential candidates to be supported by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist).^[14][15] This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...

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