Girija Prasad Koirala | |
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गिरिजाप्रसाद कोइराला | |
![]() Koirala in 2007 | |
Acting Head of State of Nepal | |
In office 15 January 2007 – 23 July 2008 | |
Preceded by | Gyanendra (as King) |
Succeeded by | Ram Baran Yadav |
30th Prime Minister of Nepal | |
In office 25 April 2006 – 18 August 2008 | |
Monarch | Gyanendra |
Deputy | KP Sharma Oli Amik Sherchan |
Preceded by | Sher Bahadur Deuba |
Succeeded by | Pushpa Kamal Dahal |
In office 22 March 2000 – 26 July 2001 | |
Monarchs | Birendra Dipendra Gyanendra |
Deputy | Ram Chandra Poudel |
Preceded by | Krishna Prasad Bhattarai |
Succeeded by | Sher Bahadur Deuba |
In office 15 April 1998 – 31 May 1999 | |
Monarch | Birendra |
Deputy | Sailaja Acharya |
Preceded by | Surya Bahadur Thapa |
Succeeded by | Krishna Prasad Bhattarai |
In office 26 May 1991 – 30 November 1994 | |
Monarch | Birendra |
Preceded by | Krishna Prasad Bhattarai |
Succeeded by | Man Mohan Adhikari |
5th President of Nepali Congress | |
In office 11 January 1992 – 20 March 2010 | |
Preceded by | Krishna Prasad Bhattarai |
Succeeded by | Sushil Koirala |
Personal details | |
Born | Saharsa, Bihar and Orissa Province, British India (present-day Bihar, India) | 4 July 1924
Died | 20 March 2010 Kathmandu, Nepal | (aged 85)
Political party | Nepali Congress |
Spouse |
Sushma Koirala
(m. 1952; died 1967) |
Children | Sujata Koirala |
Parent | Krishna Prasad Koirala (father) |
Relatives | See Koirala family |
Alma mater | Kirori Mal College (University of Delhi) |
Nepal Ratna Girija Prasad Koirala (Nepali: गिरिजाप्रसाद कोइराला ; 4 July 1924 – 20 March 2010),[1][2] affectionately known as Girija Babu,[3] was a Nepalese politician. He headed the Nepali Congress and served as the Prime Minister of Nepal on four occasions: from 1991 to 1994, 1998 to 1999, 2000 to 2001, and 2006 to 2008. He was the Acting Head of State of Nepal between January 2007 and July 2008 as the country transitioned from a monarchy to a republic.
Koirala, who was active in politics for over sixty years, was a pioneer of the Nepalese labour movement, having started the first political workers' movement on Nepalese soil, known as the Biratnagar jute mill strike in his hometown, Biratnagar. In 1991 he became the first democratically elected prime minister in Nepal since 1959, when his brother B.P. Koirala and the Nepali Congress party were swept into power in the country's first democratic election. He was the most prominent and consequential political leader in Nepal from 2001 to 2008.
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