Bishnu Pratap Shah, a well known personality in the service sector of Nepal represented in his lifetime the cause of good governance in his own way. He served under different capacities and rose to the higher positions through his dedication to work, talent and capability. Shah, who, had been appointed to important positions of Zonal Commissioner and Government Secretary during the party-less Panchayat era, also succeeded in getting high position of the Chief Election Commissioner after the restoration of democracy in 1990, because of his personal integrity and dedication to work. He had won the heart of the Nepalese readers through his thought provoking write-ups published in Kantipur daily from time to time. In one such article he had underlined the need to hold Constituent Assembly elec