Dahal’s son dies of heart failure

The only son of Nepal’s former prime minister and Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal died yesterday of heart failure.Prakash Dahal, the 36-year-old son of the former prime minister, was rushed to a hospital was rushed to the Thapathali-based Norvic International Hospital at 5.50am. Doctors pronounced him dead at 5.59am.Doctor J P Jaiswal said Prakash Dahal was dead three hours before he was even brought to the hospital.“His body was cold and there was no pulse. In such case, there is no need to conduct any post mortem of the body,” Jaiswal added.“I am saddened by the death of the son of my friend and former prime minister Dahal,” Nepal’s Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba wrote on Twitter.His father flew back to Kathmandu after cutting short his election campaign in eastern Nepal.Prakash, who served as his father’s personal secretary, was a Maoist central committee member.He had also been a member of an expedition that climbed Mount Everest in 2011.The Maoists waged a 10-year insurgency that ended in a peace deal in 2006.The party is fighting general elections under a new constitution, which was promulgated in 2015 as part of the peace deal.Prakash is survived by two wives and two sons.One of his wives is contesting the election as a Maoist candidate in a western Nepal constituency.