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{{Short description|Nepalese politician}}{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Surya Prasad Upadhyaya
| image =
| alt =
| caption =
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1907|09|14|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Kathmandu]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1984|07|30|1907|09|14|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[New Delhi]] India
| nationality = [[Nepal]]
| other_names = [[Suryababu]]
|party= [[Nepali Congress (Subarna)]]
| occupation = Political leader
| known_for = [[Establishment of Nepali Congress]]
}}

'''Surya Prasad Upadhyaya''' (14 September 1907 – 15 July 2014) was a [[Nepal]]ese politician. Upadhyaya was a leader of the [[Nepal Democratic Congress]], which merged with into the [[Nepali Congress]] in 1950.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nepalnews.com.np/contents/englishweekly/spotlight/2002/jun/jun21/coverstory.htm |url-status=dead |title=A New Phase Of Political Instability |author=Keshab Poudel |periodical=Nepalnews.com |date=2002-06-21 |volume=21 |issue=49 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020805202009/http://www.nepalnews.com.np/contents/englishweekly/spotlight/2002/jun/jun21/coverstory.htm |archive-date=2002-08-05}}</ref>

He was born in [[Kathmandu]] on 14 September 1907.<ref name=nagarikn1>{{cite web |url=http://www.nagariknews.com/opinions/98-opinion/44046-2012-07-30-07-46-28.html |url-status=dead |title=राजनीतिका चाणक्य] नागरिक न्यूज |date=2012-07-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120801083540/http://www.nagariknews.com/opinions/98-opinion/44046-2012-07-30-07-46-28.html |archive-date=2012-08-01}}</ref>

Upadhyaya became Home and Law Minister in the Nepali Congress cabinet after the [[1959 Nepalese legislative election|1959 election]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nepaldemocracy.org/documents/treaties_agreements/sino-nepal_treaty1969.htm |title=Sino-Nepal Treaties, 1960 |publisher=Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Nepal Office |date=2001 |website=Nepal Democracy |access-date=2017-07-23}}</ref> He led the Nepalese delegation at the 1959 [[UN General Assembly]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mofa.gov.np/nepalun/statement9.php |title=Leaders of the Nepalese Delegation to the UN General Assembly (1956-2005) |publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs |date=2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060620114418/http://www.mofa.gov.np/nepalun/statement9.php |archive-date=2006-06-20}}</ref> During the December 1960 royal coup d'état, he was arrested along with [[B.P. Koirala]] and [[Ganesh Man Singh]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/feb/25flip.htm |title=India's short-sightedness |author=T V R Shenoy |date=2005-02-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050302081859/http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/feb/25flip.htm |archive-date=2005-03-02 |periodical=Rediff India Abroad}}</ref>

In 1978 he took part in a split in the Nepali Congress, and he and [[Bakhan Singh Gurung]] founded the [[Nepali Congress (Subarna)]].<ref>{{cite journal |author=Phadnis, Urmila |title=Nepal: The Politics of Referendum |periodical=Pacific Affairs |volume=54 |issue=3 |date=1981 |pages=431–454|jstor=2756788}}</ref>

He died in New Delhi on 30 July 1984.<ref name=ekantipur1>[http://www.ekantipur.com/nep/2068/6/22/full-story/336770.html सूर्यप्रसाद उपाध्याय र लोकतन्त्र: लोकराज बराल] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304075649/http://www.ekantipur.com/nep/2068/6/22/full-story/336770.html |date=2016-03-04 }} इ-कान्तिपुर</ref>

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[[Category:Government ministers of Nepal]]
[[Category:Nepali Congress politicians]]
[[Category:Nepali Congress (Subarna) politicians]]
[[Category:Permanent Representatives of Nepal to the United Nations]]
[[Category:1907 births]]
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