Former Minister for Industry and Nepali Congress former central member Dhundiraj Shastri (Poudel) passed away on Monday. He was 90.

He breathed his last during the course of treatment at the KMC Hospital in Kathmandu at 4 am today.

He was born in 1993 BS as the eldest child of Khemraj Poudel and Sabitra Poudel in the then Kimdanda Panchayat-8, Nimdanda (now Bhumikasthan Municipality-8, Arghakhanchi).

The socialist thinker Shastri has two wives, two sons, and two daughters. One of the wives has already passed away.

Since his sons are abroad, the funeral will be conducted after they arrive, according to his family member Ashok Poudel.