[3] The party won 19 seats in the 1959 general elections and was the largest opposition in the House of Representatives.

[4] Shamsher was arrested in the 1960 royal coup, but was released in the fall of 1961 after giving support to the King.

He was able to travel abroad, visited the Rome session of the Socialist International and then went to India.

In India he denounced the royal regime in Nepal and pledged cooperation with the Nepali Congress to overthrow it.

[1] The party later disappeared, and its leaders went either to the opposition Nepali Congress or to work in the Panchayat system.