sentences:  The Regmi group although smaller than the Koirala group had attracted many followers - among them being Pushpa Lal Shrestha who later started the first Communist Party of Nepal.Regmi was a follower of the Gandhian philosophy of no violence, he was one of the pioneers of the Democratic Movement in Nepal.He played a leading role in the restoration of democracy in Nepal through non-violence against the Rana Regime and later the party-less Panchayat system.