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Girija Prasad Koirala
Girija Prasad Koirala, (born 1925, Bihar state, India—died March 20, 2010, Kathmandu, Nepal), Indian-born Nepalese politician who served 4 times as prime minister of Nepal (1991 to 1994, 1998 to 1999, 2000 to 2001, 2006 to 2008).
Koirala was an individual from the most unmistakable political family in Nepal. His more seasoned siblings both served as PM: Matrika Prasad Koirala in 1951–52 and 1953–55 and Bisheshwar Prasad Koirala from 1959 until King Mahendra toppled the administration in December 1960. Bisheshwar Prasad and Girija Prasad were in this manner detained. After his discharge in 1967, Girija Prasad went into outcast with different pioneers of the Nepali Congress Party (NCP) and did not come back to Nepal until 1979.
In 1990 Koirala was a leader of the People’s Movement (Jana Andolan), which achieved a restoration of democracy in Nepal. He was elected to the parliament in 1991 and served his first term as prime minister from 1991 to 1994. Factional disputes within the NCP brought that government down. In 1995 Koirala won the administration of the NCP, and he was named leader again in April 1998. He headed a minority government until the end of the year, when he shaped a coalition. In decisions in May 1999, the NCP won an outright lion's share, yet Koirala's intraparty rival, Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, got to be leader. In March 2000, be that as it may, Koirala removed Bhattarai by withholding bolster and got to be head administrator for a third time.
By this time the Maoist insurgency had gathered strength. Koirala sought to deploy the army against it, but this action was opposed by King Birendra, who had succeeded Mahendra in 1972. Beginning in 1996, Maoist rebels waged a bloody insurgency in Nepal. After the murder of the king by Crown Prince Dipendra in June 2001, Koirala was forced to resign. He had been criticized for his failure to prevent the royal massacre, but disputes over his handling of the insurgency as well as ongoing corruption allegations were more immediate reasons for his departure. His successor, Sher Bahadur Deuba, was twice dismissed by the autocratic new king, Gyanendra, who assumed direct power on Feb. 1, 2005. Koirala was under house arrest from that date until the following April. Universal weight and another People's Movement constrained the ruler to restore the parliament in April 2006. By then, Koirala was chosen to his fourth term as executive. Converses with the Maoist rebels finished in a far reaching peace understanding in November 2006.
In a moment of great hope for Nepal, Koirala swore into his cabinet five representatives of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) on April 1, 2007. With the Maoists included in a newly formed interim government and the role of the monarchy suspended, elections were scheduled for a Constituent Assembly that would determine the monarchy’s future status. The Maoists, however, began calling for the immediate abolishment of the monarchy as well as for the conduct of the elections under a system of proportional representation that gave them their best chance of success. When these demands were refused, they left the cabinet in September. Koirala then indefinitely postponed the elections, scheduled for November 22. The possibility of renewed war loomed, and Koirala’s government was in jeopardy.
At the point when decisions were held in April 2008, the Maoists won a dominant part of the seats. In May over two centuries of illustrious principle reached an end as the new get together voted to announce Nepal a law based republic. In the decisions for head administrator held in August, Maoist pioneer Pushpa Kamal Dahal, prominently known as Prachanda, won a staggering triumph, in this manner closure Koirala's fourth term as leader.
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