In 1942 the Indian socialist leaders Jayprakash Narayan and Ram Manohar Lohia came to Nepal to mobilise support for the Quit India Movement and organise a guerrilla army to fight against British colonial rule.

Once, whilst studying at Delhi University, he was able to meet the Latin American revolutionary leader Che Guevara.

[citation needed] Singh, a young Supreme Court lawyer, contested one of the four graduate seats in the 1971 Rastriya Panchayat election.

After his release, Singh continued to be a vocal advocate for democratic change and began organising public meetings in different parts of the country.

Bombs also went off at the Bhairahawa airport, Nepalganj and Mahendranagar in the west as well as Birgunj, Janakpur, Biratnagar and Jhapa in the east.

[8] Singh died on 12 September 2012 during the course of his treatment at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) in the capital Kathmandu.