Dhyan Govinda Ranjit

Who is Dhyan Govinda Ranjit?

Dhyan Govinda Ranjit a.k.a. Dhyan Govinda Ranjitkar is a Nepalese politician and a leader of Nepali Congress. He is a member of Nepalese constituent assembly/Nepalese Parliament. Ranjit has twice been elected to the Nepalese Constituent Assembly from Kathmandu constituency. He was an elected member of Nepali Congress parliamentary party working committee and a representative of Nepali Congress in work editing committee . He is also the Immediate Past President of Kathmandu District Committee of Nepali Congress.

Ranjit has been active in Nepalese politics since the "civil disobidience movement" in 1954. He was amongst the first group of politicians imprisoned in the coup d'état of 1960 by King Mahendra for advocating democracy and supporting elected Prime Minister, Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala. During King Mahendra's direct rule after coup d'etat of 1960, he was accused of Sedition for trying to establish democratic political system against King's direct autocratic system due to which he was imprisoned for around a decade in various prisons in Nepal and spent many years in exile along with leaders like Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala, Girija Prasad Koirala, Ganesh Man Singh and Krishna Prasad Bhattarai.