He managed to throw the bomb amid strict security and presence of thousands of army and police at the Janaki Temple premises in Janakpur during the king's visit to the eastern Terai.
Jha threw a bomb saying King Mahendra had scuttled democracy by dissolving the popularly elected parliament and imposing a direct rule.
He is held as a martyr by the democratic parties,[2][3] which never went mainstream because monarchy retained a power position in Nepal.
The democratic party which won the general election after the fall of Panchayat dictatorship sustained Kings position on not paying proper respect to Jha's sacrifice.
Similar example is seen in erecting a statue of Bhanubhakta (a poet who translated Ramayan in Nepali) at Bhanu Chowk in Janakpur instead of a multitude of Maithili laureates.