sentences:  Legend has it that King himself told Jha that he would spare his life for an apology to which Durganand replied that the king was the one who should apologize for all the lives that had been lost in the quest for democracy, which he hijacked.According to Aravind Thakur, arrested along with him, Jha, as he was prepared for death penalty, had said, "Do not worry, no one can stop republic now".He is held as a martyr by the democratic parties, which never went mainstream because monarchy retained a power position in Nepal.