Subarna Shamsher Rana

Major General Subarna Shamsher Rana
Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal
In office 27 May 1959 – 16 December 1960
Prime Minister	Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala
Finance Minister of Nepal
In office 27 May 1959 – 16 December 1960
Prime Minister	Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala
21st Prime Minister of Nepal
In office 15 May 1958 – 27 May 1959
Monarch	Mahendra
Preceded by	Kunwar Inderjit Singh
Succeeded by	Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala
3rd President of Nepali Congress
In office 24 January 1956 – 23 May 1957
Preceded by	Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala
Succeeded by	Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala
Finance Minister of Nepal
In office 1950–1951
Prime Minister	Mohan Shamsher Rana, Matrika Prasad Koirala

Major General Maha Gaurabmaya Tejaswi Tribhuvan Prajatantra Shripada The Rt Hon. Subarna Shamsher Rana (Nepali: सुवर्ण सम्शेर राणा) (1910–1977) was a leading figure in the movement to overthrow the ruling Rana oligarchy and to establish democracy in Nepal. He was one of the three leaders of the Nepali Congress in the late 1940s, opposing his relatives, the Rana family, who held power in Nepal at the time. He is one of the most revered leaders of Nepali Congress.

Subarna Shamsher played a crucial role during the movement to attain democracy in Nepal and to remove the Rana rule. He had initially founded the Nepalese Democratic Congress in March, 1948. Its main agenda was to destabilize the Rana regime and to introduce a multi-party democratic system in Nepal. Its operations were run mainly from the Indian state, United Province which is present day Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. In 1950, both Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala and Subarna Shamsher realized that the only way that the movement would succeed would be through the merger of their respective political parties. The only barrier to this was that the Nepalese National Congress, which was the party Koirala headed, did not accept violence as a method to achieve democracy while the Nepalese Democratic Congress did. After a string of talks and negotiations Subarna Shamsher made Koirala realize that violence will be needed and thus, the two parties came to together to form the Nepali Congress. After the merger he spearheaded the movement and enabled it to arm and train a small army which then began destabilizing the Rana government in eastern parts of Nepal. The financing for all the activities of the Nepai Congress was done by Subarna Shamsher through his own personal funds. In late 1950, there was a general mobilization with violent protests and attacks taking place in Birgunj and Biratnagar. With situation getting worse for the Rana governor, the Royal Army eventually retreated from most of eastern Nepal which then came on the control of the Nepali Congress. This victory was short lived as the new reinforced Rana forces overpowered the weaker forces of the Nepli Forces and drove them out of Nepal. But the struggle in easter Nepal had the desired effect and all over Nepal people started rising against the Rana regime. By late 1951, the Rana Prime Minister Mohan Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana gave into the demands of the Nepali Congress and gave way for the reforms to be carried out by the Congress under the supervision of King Tribhuvan.

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