Dhyan Govinda Ranjit

Ranjit was born in Majipat, Kathmandu to Narayan Govinda Ranjit and Mohan Devi Ranjit. He obtained school level education from J.P. High School. He was arrested at a young age of 17 during King's direct rule of Nepal for supporting democracy. In spite of being in and out of prison for most of his life for advocating freedom and democracy in Nepal, he obtained Master of Arts (Political Science) and studied Master of Public Administration and Bachelor of Law.

Ranjit was active to restore democracy in Nepal during entire 30-year period of autocratic rule by Nepalese Monarchy called as Panchayati Regime. He was one of the founders of Nepal Student Union (Nepali:Nepal Bidhyarthi Sangh) and served in various capacity as leader of Nepal Student Union (Nepali:Nepal Bidhyarthi Sangh) and then banned Nepali Congress.

He was one of the main leaders involved in restoration of democracy during king's direct rule in Nepal.

Ranjit was imprisoned by the partyless Panchayati Government of Nepal for more than ten years for advocating freedom and multi party democracy in Nepal. During the partyless Panchayati Regime (1960–1990), he spent many years in exile in India along with Supreme Leader of Nepali Congress Ganesh Man Singh.

After restoration of democracy, he ran for election for Member of Parliament in 1994 (2051 Bikram Sambat) from Kathmandu Constituency No. 7 on behalf of Nepali Congress.[2]

Ranjit is an elected member of Nepalese Constituent Assembly/Nepalese Parliament. He has been elected to Constituent Assembly for the second time from Kathmandu constituency in November 2013. He was also elected from the same constituency in 2008.[3]

Ranjit was an elected member of the Nepali Congress parliamentary party working committee.[4] He was a representative of Nepali Congress in work editing committee (Nepali: कार्य व्यवस्था परामर्श समिति) of Nepalese Constituent Assembly/Nepalese Parliament, an important committee coordinating all activities of Nepalese Constituent Assembly/Nepalese Parliament. Ranjit represented Nepali Congress in National Interest Preservation Committee, which is a thematic committee of Nepalese Constituent Assembly.[5]

Ranjit is advisor to numerous social organizations in Nepal. In the past, he has been elected to the executive committee of Nepal Council of World Affairs.

In November 2013, Ranjit got elected to Constituent Assembly for the second time from Kathmandu.[6]

He was the coordinator of Nepali Congress Mahasamiti preparation committee[7] which successfully carried out preparations for Nepali Congress Mahasamiti meeting held from November 1 to November 3, 2009, in Kathmandu, Nepal. The party has 1,250 representatives in the Mahasamiti, the second powerful body in the party.[8]

He was the chief guest in an interaction programme jointly organized by the Russian Center for Science and Culture and the Nepal Council of World Affairs in February 2009. The interaction programme was titled ‘foreign policy of Russia in the present context’ and marked the 200th anniversary of the diplomatic day of Russia.[9]

On 29 December 2008, he presented a letter of appreciation to Park Young Seok, a Korean mountaineer who has climbed all of the world's 14 mountains above 8,000 metres. The facilitation programme was organized by Nepal Korea Cooperation Council.[10]

He was the chief guest in the programme organized on 16 June 2008 at the Russian Centre of Science and Culture to mark the 45th Anniversary of the Cosmos Flight by the world's first woman cosmonaut Valentina Terehkova (i.e. on June 16, 1963).[11]

In April 2008 he won the Kathmandu-9 seat in the Constituent Assembly election, under the first-past-the-post (FPTP) system.[12]

He was the Coordinator of the Martyrs Day Main Organising Committee 2063 (2007) to mark Martyrs Day in Nepal.[13]

In the past, he served as the head of seven party alliance delegates overseeing the activities of the city.

• Nepali Congress
• Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala
• Ganesh Man Singh
• Krishna Prasad Bhattarai
• Girija Prasad Koirala
• Sher Bahadur Deuba