Ramjee Kunwar

Who is Ramjee Kunwar?

Ramjee Kunwar is a Nepal Trade Union Congress-Independent leader, Senior Vice President of NTUCI and Nepali Congress Activist. He was also the former Vice President and Secretary of NTUCI and currently Acting president.

NTUCI is a major democratic national center of Nepal, established on 1947 A.D.The labor movement in Nepal started on March 4, 1947 in Biratnagar against the hereditary Rana rule for the establishment of democracy and advancement of workers’ rights.In 1948 Late Mr. Girija Prasad Koirala founded the Nepal Mazdoor Congress, later known as the Nepal Trade Union Congress-Independent. NTUCI also actively agitated and protested in 2006 democracy movement in Nepal against the direct and undemocratic rule of King Gyanendra of Nepal. Many leaders of Trade Union along with Mr. Kunwar was put to jail and some fled to India. The ideology of NTUCI was based on democracy, nationalism and socialism. NTUCI is affialiated with International Trade Union Confederation and International Labour Organization.