Nepal, June 16 -- Former Minister for Industry and former central member of the Nepali Congress (NC), Dhundiraj Shastri (Poudel) has passed away at the KMC Hospital in Kathmandu on Monday.

He was born in 1993 BS as the eldest child of father Khemraj Poudel and mother Sabitra Poudel in the then Kimdanda Panchayat-8, Nimdanda, now located in Bhumikasthan Municipality-8, Arghakhanchi.

The socialist thinker Shastri has two wives, two sons, and two daughters. One of the wives has already passed away. Since his sons are abroad, his last rites will be conducted after they arrive, according to his family member Ashok Poudel.

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