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Koirala was also one of the most important literary figures of Nepal. In politics Koirala was a social democrat; in literature he was an existentialist especially in his novel Tin Ghumti (Three Turns). He said that he wrote his literary works to satisfy his anarchist impulses, impulses which revolted against the traditional order of things. But ...
Bisheshwor Prasad Koirala's Atmabrittanta (Late Life Recollections) is the autobiography of a prominent political figure and the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Nepal. [1]
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.
On 16 May 1959, Koirala was invited by King Mahendra to form a government and the cabinet was formed on 27 May 1959. [1] [2] The cabinet was reshuffled just over a month later on 30 June 1959. [3] Koirala and the entire cabinet were arrested and the parliament was dissolved on 15 December 1960 as a result of a coup d'état by King Mahendra. [1]
The 1973 Royal Nepal Airlines DHC-6 hijacking (also known as the Biratnagar Plane Hijack) was the first aircraft hijacking in the history of Nepal.. The main motive for this incident was to gather funds for an armed revolution to restore multi-party democracy by overthrowing the party-less Panchayat system headed by the King in Nepal, Mahendra of Nepal.
After the results were announced, the then King of Nepal King Mahendra called upon B.P. Koirala to form a government as the Congress had the majority in Parliament. The government was formed in which BP Koirala was prime minister with Subarna Shamsher as deputy prime minister and Finance Minister.
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
State funeral of BP Koirala: July 21, 1982 Nepal: Kathmandu ~500,000 [74] Funeral of Aleksandar Ranković: August 22, 1983 Yugoslavia: Belgrade ~100,000 [75] [76] [77] Funeral of Benigno Aquino Jr. August 31, 1983 Philippines: Metro Manila: at least 2,000,000 [78] Funeral of Enrico Berlinguer: June 13, 1984 Italy: Rome: at least 1,000,000 [79]