BDRunner, Sept 13:-
The ‘Gen G’ protests have ousted the KP Sharma Oli government in Nepal. Former Chief Justice of Nepal Sushila Karki was sworn in as the interim Prime Minister on Friday night. The world is in a state of flux over the 73-year-old Sushila Karki. Her husband’s past ‘misdeeds’ are coming to light. Several years ago, Sushila’s husband, Durga Prasad Subedi, was involved in a plane hijacking in Nepal. He also had to serve time in jail for that crime.
Sushila met Subedi while studying at Banaras Hindu University in India. At that time, Durga Prasad Subedi was the youth leader of the Nepali Congress. That meeting led to love. The two got married. According to a New York Times report, Sushila did her master’s degree from Banaras Hindu University in 1975. Before that, on June 10, 1973, the Nepali Congress hijacked a plane. Sushila’s husband, Durga Prasad Subedi, was accused of that hijacking. Nagendra Dhungel and Vasant Bhattarai were also identified as his associates.
At that time, there was a massive movement against King Mahendra in Nepal. The Nepal Congress demanded that the monarchy be destroyed and that democracy be established in the country. This plane was hijacked to collect money for that movement. Girija Prasad Koirala prepared the blueprint for the hijacking. He later became the Prime Minister of Nepal four times. According to the reports published in the media at that time, three armed men hijacked a two-engine Nepali plane. The plane carried a large amount of money from the Nepal State Bank. The hijackers took the plane to India. The aircraft landed in Forbesganj, Bihar. There were five other hijackers already there. One of them was Sushil Koirala. Then, they unloaded three boxes filled with approximately $400,000 from there and asked the plane to return. The miscreants fled into the jungle with the money.
However, within a year of the incident, Indian investigators arrested the remaining criminals except Dhungel. Sushila’s husband, Subedi, who had just become the Prime Minister of Nepal, and all the others were sentenced to prison. They served two years in an Indian jail. They then returned to Nepal before the 1980 referendum. Later, Dinesh Bhattarai, a retired Nepali ambassador to the United Nations, told Reuters in a 2014 interview that money was needed to continue the ongoing fight against the monarchy. After the hijacking, the money was used for party work.
Source: Sangbad Protidin
