Plow Revolution Day being celebrated at Archlyani Bategra in Lamjung
What you should know
Plow Revolution Day is being celebrated at Archlyani Bategra, Sundarbazar Municipality 4, Duradanda, Lamjung on Sunday to commemorate the plowing of the plow by the Brahmins of Lamjung through social revolution. Before the establishment of democracy in Nepal, on 11 July 2006, under the leadership of Pandit Toyanath Adhikari, Lieutenant Sheshkant Adhikari, Chief Haribhakt Paudel, Mayanath Paudel, Srikanth Adhikari and 27 other men plowed the plow for the first time in Nepal.
Secretary of the organization Laxmikant Neupane informed that the 76th Plow Revolution Day is going to be celebrated on Sunday under the organization of Halo Kranti Nepal and Toy Nath Memorial Foundation. According to him, on the day of the day, there is a program of reciting songs and poems in memory of those involved in the Plow Revolution, commemorating them, and discussing their contribution to the social revolution.
Plow Revolution Day is celebrated every year in Bategra of Archlyani. The Plow Revolution Nepal and Toy Nath Memorial Foundation have announced that the day when Bahoon plowed the plow for the first time to end Brahminism and caste discrimination as Plow Revolution Day.
The late Pandit Toyanath Adhikari was the main person who made the 'Halokranti' on 11th July 2006. File photo: Kantipur
A complaint was filed with the Rana government against the plowing of the Brahmins. On 11th July, 2007, government officials arrested Pandit Toyanath Adhikari, Sheshkanth Adhikari and Srikanth Adhikari on the charge of doing anti-government activities during the time of the then Chief Minister Mr. 3 Mohan Shamsher. After walking for 1 day and 1 night through Parevadanda, Kuncha, the original headquarters, Vorletar, they were brought to Goshwara in Pokhara at 4 in the morning.
They were released after 48 hours after going on a hunger strike in the jail saying that "we are ready to take any action if it is mentioned in the law and the Vedas that the plow should not be plowed with arms". Since Srikanth teaches at Aadhaar School in Bindwasini, Pokhara, he was given the paper. Toyanath and Sheshkanth were dropped in Dainik Tarekh. After the expiration of the tarekh, they returned to the village. However, the villagers did not change their attitude towards them.
Bishnu Prasad Adhikari who passed away on 30th of January 2071. File photo: Kantipur
Currently, 27 people participating in the Halokranti are not Brahmins. All of them have passed away. Pandit Toyanath Adhikari, the leader of 'Halo Kranti', passed away in 2022. The youngest Mayanath Paudel passed away on 28th June 2073. Before that, Bishnu Prasad Adhikari passed away on 30th January 2071.
According to Mayanath when he was alive, the Halokranti was a revolution in agriculture and labour. There was an economic revolution. There was a social revolution. This type of action was against caste untouchability. After the plowing revolution in Duradanda of Lamjung on July 11, 2006, it is found in various works and articles that the Plowing campaign started in Tanahun in January 2006, Kaski and Dhading in February, Arghakhanchi and Gorkha in April 2007 and Syangja in 2008.
Mayanath Poudel who passed away on 28th June 2073. File photo: Kantipur
Upadhyaya Bahun plowed the plow for the first time in Nepal in the Duradanda of Lamjung, written by Jeevan Adhikari in 2048, Plow Revolution written by Hanspure Subedi, Nepal's Plow Revolution in the Cultural Environment, Tirtharaj Sharma, Khemkarna Koirala etc.
According to those books, together with Toyanath, Haribhakta, Sheshkanth, Haridas and others decided to plow plow in the year 2004. Under the leadership of Pandit Toyanath, Toyanath and Haribhakta were assigned to investigate the issue of ploughing, both classically and legally. Mukhiya Haridas passed away on February 4, 2005 while the opinion was being taken. The participants in the plowing revolution said that they plowed on July 11, 2006 after consulting them while they were still alive.
