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The first general election was held in 1959 and Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala became the first elected prime minister of Nepal. However, he was deposed and imprisoned in the 1960 coup d'état by King Mahendra who went on to establish an oligarchic authoritative regime, the Panchayat system , and Nepal did not have a democratic government until 1990.
Mukhtiyar Bhimsen Thapa was the first person to be referred to as prime minister by the British. [9] Similarly, historian Chittaranjan Nepali writes that the first institution to hold all state powers was the position of Mukhtiyar which was established after King Rana Bahadur Shah returned to Nepal from Varanasi.
[81] [82] A cabinet meeting chaired by prime minister and party chairman KP Sharma Oli recommended the president to dissolve the House of Representatives on 22 May 2021 after members of his party led by former prime ministers Madhav Kumar Nepal and Jhala Nath Khanal supported Nepali Congress leader Sher Bahadur Deuba as the next prime minister.
Nepal’s newly appointed prime minister took the oath of office Monday at a ceremony in Kathmandu. ... when street protests forced then-King Birendra to hold free elections that turned Nepal into ...
Nepal was ruled by monarchs of the Shah dynasty from 1768 till the abolition of monarchy in 2008. However, from 1846 until the 1951 revolution, the country was de facto ruled by the hereditary prime ministers of the Rana dynasty, reducing the role of the Shah monarch to that of a figurehead. [1]
The leader of the Nepal’s largest communist party, Khadga Prasad Oli, was named the Himalayan nation’s new prime minister on Sunday following the collapse of a previous coalition government. A ...
The Fourth Oli Cabinet is the current Government of Nepal, formed on 15 July 2024 after KP Sharma Oli was sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Nepal by president Ram Chandra Poudel. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Oli was appointed prime minister as per Article 76(2) of the constitution , following the ouster of the government of Pushpa Kamal Dahal after a failed ...
In August 2016 Pushpa Kamal Dahal was elected for a second stint as Prime Minister of Nepal. [34] Dahal became the 24th prime minister since Nepal's adoption of multi-party democracy in 1990 and the eighth since the abolition of the monarchy in 2008. [35] He resigned from the post of prime minister on 24 May 2017 and was succeeded by Sher ...