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Girija Prasad Koirala in his youth. Koirala was born in Saharsa, Bihar, British India, in 1924 into a Hill Brahmin family. [5] His father, Krishna Prasad Koirala, was a Nepali living in exile. [6] In 1952 Koirala married Sushma Koirala, headmistress at the local school for women in Biratnagar. [7] Their daughter Sujata Koirala was born in 1953.
Krishna Prasad Koirala, a Rana-era socio-political activist, was exiled to Bihar, India by then Prime Minister Maharaja Chandra Sumsher. [1] Four members of the family, including three brothers (Matrika Prasad Koirala, B. P. Koirala and Girija Prasad Koirala) and their maternal cousin Sushil Koirala, have been Prime Ministers of Nepal.
On 9 March 1947, Koirala crossed over to Nepal to help his brother Girija Prasad Koirala instigate the Biratnagar jute mill strike. He was arrested along with Girija Prasad Koirala and four other National Congress leaders and taken with his fellow agitators to Kathmandu via a 21-day long, slow walk across the hills. The prisoners' march ...
Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala (B.P. Koirala) (1914–1982), Prime Minister of Nepal from 1959 to 1960; Bharat Koirala, winner of the 2002 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism; Girija Prasad Koirala (1925–2010), five times Prime Minister of Nepal in the 1990s and 2000s, Head of State from 2007 to 2008; Krishna Prasad Koirala (died 1943 ...
Sujata Koirala (Nepali: सुजाता कोइराला; born 9 February 1954) [2] [3] is a Nepalese politician and the only daughter of former Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala. She was made Foreign Minister under Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal. Sujata was promoted to Deputy Prime Minister on 12 October 2009. [4]
Koirala has one brother, Siddharth Koirala, who is a former Bollywood actor. [12] Several members of her family went on to become politicians; her grandfather, Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala, was the Prime Minister of Nepal during the late 1950s to the early 1960s, as were two of her great-uncles, Girija Prasad Koirala and Matrika Prasad Koirala.
He had five sons and four daughters. His sons were: Matrika Prasad Koirala, Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala, Girija Prasad Koirala, Keshav Prasad Koirala and Tarini Prasad Koirala and the four daughters were Nalini Koirala (Upadhyaya), Indira Koirala (Acharya), Sauvagya Kumari (Sauri) Koirala (Arjel) and Vijaylaxmi Koirala (Zaki). His three eldest ...
Krishna Prasad Koirala (father of 3 ex PMs of Nepal: Matrika, BP & Girija) Matrika Prasad Koirala ex. prime minister; Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala ex. prime minister Prakash Koirala royalist politician, son of BP Manisha Koirala Bollywood actress, grand daughter of BP; Siddharth Koirala Bollywood actor, grandson of BP; Dr. Shashanka Koirala ...