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Indian origin Nepalese industrialist dies
Shankarlal Kedia, a leading Nepalese industrialist, died in Mumbai on Saturday. He was 68.
Shankarlal Kedia, a leading Nepalese industrialist whose family came from the trading Marwari community of western India, died in Mumbai on Saturday. He was 68.
Kedia, whose business empire includes carpets, sugar and pulse mills, dairy and schools, died of heart failure in Bombay Hospital in Mumbai on Saturday morning.
His death has cast a pall of gloom on the Marwari community in Nepal. He was founder of Nepal's Vishwa Hindu Mahasangh, a right-wing Hindu nationalist organisation linked to the ultra-right Vishwa Hindu Parishad Party of India.
An active member of Nepal Rastriya Marwari Parishad, an association of the Nepalese-Marwari business disapora in Nepal, Kedia had been recently occupied in planning an international conference of Marwaris worldwide in Kathmandu.
He is survived by his wife, three daughters and two sons. Kedia's body could not be flown back to Kathmandu Saturday. The funeral will be held when the body is flown to Patna via Delhi and then brought to Kathmandu by road from Birgunj.
