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Yagya Prasad Acharya : Born 1933 AD. in Teliya Piple in Dhankuta district. He was born in an affluent Teliyali Acharya family of father Laxmi Prasad Acharya and mother Bishnu Kumari Acharya. He studied in Dharan Public High School and was the first batch student from Dharan township to pass School Leaving Certificate (SLC) in 1949 AD. Later he passed MA in Mordern World History in 1955 AD. from Banares Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India, who was again the first person to pass MA from Dharan Bazar. He is also Master's in Law from BHU. (1956 AD.) He happens to be the first elected representative of Dharan municipality in 1958, after Dharan was established as the fourth municipality of the Kingdom of Nepal.

Join Politics as a Communist Yagya Prasad Acharya joined politics while he was studying in Irwing Christian College in Allahabad in 1949 AD. He was the founder of the Akhil Bharat Nepali Vidyarthi Sangathan (All India Nepali Student Union) in 1953 AD., which was the first student wing of Nepal Communist Party, established in 1949 AD. Acharya was the member of Indian Communist Party, Banares Municipal Unit in 1954 AD. In 1956 AD. he became first Chair of Yuwa Sangh Nepal (established in 1957 AD.), the youth wing of Nepal Communist Party (NCP). He was nominated in the youth wing leader by NCP Founding Secretary General Pushpa Lal Shrestha. Later after returning to Nepal, he was elected District Secretary of Nepal Communist Party, Sunsari in 1957 AD. He was popularly elected first ward chair and member of Dharan Municipality from Nepal Communist Party in 1958 AD. following the establishment of Dharan Municipality, as a fourth Municipality in 1957 AD.

Political positions He was again elected member of Dharan Nagar Panchayat in 1961 AD. and continued till 1966 AD. During this period, he started free education for children in 8 schools of Dharan, which was the first time Nepal experienced Free Education System in the country. Appointed member of Zonal Executive Council and Zonal Council in 1967 AD. Elected with landslide majority as the National President of Nepal Youth Central Organization (NYO), a constitutional body in 1972 AD. He was nominated member of the Back To The Village Campaign Central Committee (BTTV-CCC), the powerful constitutional body of Partyless Panchayat Polity in 1977 AD. He was nominated National Evaluation Committee, a political constitutional body in 1986 AD. He was nominated to State Council Standing Committee in 2005 AD., which had the authority to declare the abdication, incapacitation, death and nomination of a new King of Nepal as per its constitutional responsibility. As a departure from previous tradition, he was the second person only to Khadga Bahadur Singh to hold chairmanship of the Chair of King's Birthday Celebration Main Committee, despite not being the Prime Minister and the responsibilities that used to be entrusted only to a former Prime Minister of Nepal.