Son of late Hindu preacher Narayan Prashad Pokhrel organized a daylong ‘Bhagbat Purana’ (a holy Hindu scripture) on Saturday from Dudhrakshya VDC of Rupendehi district, where his father was shot dead last year.

Dinbandhu Pokhrel, the eldest son of late Pokhrel, said that he started reciting the ‘Purana’ to fulfill the dream of his father to do social work through religious preaching.

A group of unidentified gunmen shot dead Pokhrel at Dudhrakshya VDC of Rupendehi on 6th May 2005, where Pokhrel was reciting a week-long ‘Sri Madbhavat Purana’ raise donations for a local campus at Rampur.

A famous orator, Pokhrel had earned fame for reciting ‘Sri Madbhagavat Purana,’ and helped raise tens of millions of rupees from devotees for charities. A number of schools, hospitals, houses for elderly citizens and roads were constructed across the country from the donations collected from religious functions conducted by Pokhrel.

Maoist-affiliated Dalit Mukti Morcha (Dalit Liberation Front) acknowledged their mistake in the murder of Pokhrel and regretted it.