Madan Kumar Bhandari was a Nepalese politician and communist leader. He was sensational youth Communist leader who rose to prominence after being party leader and defeating great rival leader Krishna Prasad Bhattarai in the general election. The New York Times featured him,[clarification needed] writing, “Karl Marx lives in Nepal.Bhandari was born in Dhungesangu village of Taplejung district of eastern Nepal. He studied in Medibung School in Taplejung and in Varanasi, India. In 1972, he became the central committee member of the Janabadi Sanskritik Morcha (Democratic Cultural Front), a student movement launched by Pushpa Lal Shrestha. Around 1976, he left Pushpa Lal’s Communist Party of Nepal to launch the Mukti Morcha Samuha (“Liberation Front Group”), which formed an alliance with the survivors of the Jhapa Movement in 1978. He was a founder member of the Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) preceding the 1980 referendum and was elected general secretary at its fourth national in 1986. - See more at: http://www.lightnepalvideo.com/videos/madan-bhandari-speech-2/#sthash.867etFKz.dpuf