Former journalist, Ramesh Sharma, by exposing the King's conspiracy, had been successful singlehandedly in correcting the course of Nepal's prolonged struggle for democracy in 1990. He also led the trade union movement in government-owned newspaper organization where he worked as an editor for almost one and a half decades. Amidst chaos and terror in the wake of then King's usurpation of power, Jayatu Sanskritam Mahasabha, under his leadership, had been the first political organization in February, 2004, to publicly call for the replacement of monarchy with Republican Democracy in the kingdom.