Kathmandu, June 28: The 73rd birth anniversary of Madan Kumar Bhandari, then General Secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal UML, is being celebrated today with various programs commemorating his contribution to the communist movement in the country. The Madan Bhandari Foundation is distributing the Madan Bhandari National Award and organizing a symposium on political development and stability today at the UML party office in Lalitpur Chaisal. On the occasion of the birth anniversary, trees were being planted by the student wing of the party. Madan Bhandari, during the fifth national convention, presented a paper on 'People's multi-party democracy', which was adopted by the UML as a prime directive for the party. Bhandari, the spouse of ex-President Bidya Debi Bhandari, died in a suspicious vehicle accident at Dasdhunga in Chitwan. People’s News Monitoring Service.