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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{About|military officer turned Nepali Congress politician Yagya Bahadur Thapa who was later martyred}}<br />
{{Infobox officeholder<br />
|name= Yagya Bahadur Thapa<br />
|native_name= यज्ञबहादुर थापा<br />
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|birth_date = 1917<br />
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|death_date = 1978<br />
|rank = [[Captain (armed forces)|Captain]]<ref name="wwYuAQAAIAAJ"/><br />
|party = [[Nepali Congress]]<br />
|known_for =led armed revolution in 1974 against Government; a recognised martyr<br />
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'''Yagya Bahadur Thapa''' ({{lang-ne|यज्ञबहादुर थापा}}) is a recognised martyr of Nepal. He was given martyrdom status by the Government of Nepal on March 2016.<ref name="thehimalayantimes">{{cite web|url=https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/22-people-given-martyrdom-status/|publisher=thehimalayantimes.com|title=22 people given martyrdom status|access-date=2017-06-11}}</ref> He was born in 1917 and from [[Okhaldhunga district]] and a member of [[Nepali Congress]]<ref name="thehimalayantimes"/> in the 1970s when it was banned.<ref name="Shrestha2016">Shrestha, Nanda R. Historical dictionary of Nepal. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. p364</ref> Along with Bhim Narayan Shrestha, he was a leader in armed revolt in 1974 and was a leader in the banned [[Nepali Congress]].<ref name="ekantipur">{{cite web|url=http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/printedition/news/2016-06-02/a-long-and-lacklustre-reign.html|publisher=kathmandupost.ekantipur.com|title=A long and lacklustre reign - Oped - The Kathmandu Post|access-date=2017-06-11}}</ref> He was implicated in an bomb attack on the King of Nepal in [[Biratnagar]].<ref>Parmanand, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=KE8FAAAAMAAJ The Nepali Congress in Exile]'', University Book House (Nepal) 1978, p68</ref> He joined with mutineers at the eastern hill district of Okhaldunga in an attempted armed revolution.<ref name="Muni2006">{{cite book|author=S. D. Muni|title=Responding to Terrorism in South Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PYraAAAAMAAJ|year=2006|publisher=Manohar Publishers & Distributors|isbn=978-81-7304-671-1}}</ref> He was arrested attempting to capture Okhaldunga.<ref name="Shrestha2016"/><br />
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A one man tribunal of Ridhima Nand Rajacharya sentenced Captain Yagya Bahadur Thapa and Bhim Narayan Shrestha to death.<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=Nepal: Year of Decision|author=Kumar, D.P.|date=1980|publisher=Vikas Publishing House|isbn=9780706910315|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FUNuAAAAMAAJ|access-date=2017-06-11}}</ref> The [[Supreme Court of Nepal]] upheld the decision.<ref name="wwYuAQAAIAAJ">{{cite book|title=Asian Recorder|date=1977|volume=23|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wwYuAQAAIAAJ|access-date=2017-06-11}}</ref> In 1978 he was executed in a forest south of [[Hetauda]].<ref name="Shrestha2016"/><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Nepali Congress politicians]]<br />
[[Category:Bagale Thapa]]<br />
[[Category:1917 births]]<br />
[[Category:1978 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Deaths by firearm in Nepal]]<br />
[[Category:People from Okhaldhunga District]]<br />
[[Category:Nepalese martyrs]]</div>->Amortias