Nabindra Raj Joshi

Joshi entered politics as a student, joining the fight against the Panchayat regime as a member of Nepal Students Union, the student wing of Nepali Congress. He was elected the general secretary of the union in 1986. He defeated Jeevan Ram Shrestha of CPN UML to be elected to the second constituent assembly in 2013, receiving 13,774 votes to Shrestha's 6,106. He became the minister of industry of the second Dahal cabinet in 2016. He held the office until September 2017. Joshi served as the spokesperson of his party, Nepali Congress, from 2008 to 2013. ==Personal life==

Joshi was a native of Kathmandu. Joshi was rushed to Bir Hospital at 3:00 am on 26 February 2021, and later moved to Norvic Hospital. He underwent surgery that same day, having suffered brain haemorrhage in the right part of his brain due to stroke. Kept under ventilator support for a month, he died on 26 March. Nepali Congress president Sher Bahadur Deuba remembered Joshi as "an excellent organiser" and "an honest and faithful leader". The party called an emergency meeting on 27 March. It decided to fly the party's flag at half-mast for three days, and to postpone all party activities except mourning programmes for the same duration. Joshi's body was laid in state at the party's head office in Sanepa where Deuba draped his body in the party's flag, He was cremated by his family at the Pashupati Aryaghat the same day. ==References==