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Ganga Lal was an excellent public speaker. He was an active member of organisations that sought to oust the Ranas and establish democracy in Nepal. He had been a member of
Mahabir School, whose aim was to fill the students with patriotic feelings. He was arrested briefly in 1939 for giving a lecture
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in which about 40 members of the nobility including the prime minister and a relative of the king were murdered. Tyranny, debauchery, economic exploitation and religious persecution characterised the Rana rule. The 104-year Rana regime has been called one of the darkest periods of
Nepalese history.
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Ganga Lal was allowed one last meeting with his family the day before he was executed. They went to the jail and he was brought out of his cell with shackled hands and feet. The emotional reunion stirred his youngest brother
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The secret Nepal Praja
Parishad was exposed by one Ramji Joshi in return for a cash reward of Rs. 5,000. This led to the arrest of many of its members on 18 October 1940. On 19 January 1941, the Ranas sentenced Ganga Lal,
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In 1965, Nepal's Postal
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Ganga Lal is remembered as one of the four martyrs of the revolution that brought down the Rana regime. Every year on 30 January, Nepal celebrates
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The Rana dynasty was eventually overthrown in
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