Ratna Kumar Bantawa was a young and active leader of the CPN.
It was not free and easy to work as a political leader during the panchayat rule. The police would be searching for such people. Every leader had known that to be arrested was either imprisoned or to be executed. However, the leaders would be working to establish democracy ending the panchayat system continuously. Busy in party work, Ratna Kumar Bantawa and the police encountered nearby deumai river of Illam. Immediately the police opened firing and killed him on 27th of chaitra, 2035 BS. This incident is remembered as Deumai incident. Since he go martyrdom while working for the rights and freedom of the people, he is remembered by the politicians till today.