Kathmandu: A former veteran communist, Mr. Kedar Prasad Arjyal, through a press statement has appealed his near and distant relatives not to observe the traditional Hindu rituals after he leaves for heavenly abode.

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Mr. Arjyal, a resident of Biratnagar sub-metroplitan city, has bluntly said that since “I do not believe in these expensive and rigorous traditions and hence my dead body be burnt at the nearby river or whatsoever comes as comfortable for my relatives”.

The former communist has also said that the money thus saved be utilized in creating a scholarship for a Nepali student belonging to the Morang district’s Tharu community at the Mahendra Morang Campus.

The statement which is almost in the form of a will also requests his own family members to arrange a luncheon in honor of those who would accompany his corpse to the river where the funeral ceremony will take place.

This is perhaps first of its kind will coming as it does from a traditional Brahmin.

Perhaps it is Mr. Arjyal’s revolutionary spirit that still appears to be very much alive and kicking.