Nepal's Most Powerful Former Politician GIRIJA PRASAD KOIRALA

Prime Minister of Nepal

In office
25 April 2006 – 18 August 2008
Monarch Gyanendra
President Ram Baran Yadav
Deputy Ram Chandra Poudel
Preceded by Sher Bahadur Deuba
Succeeded by Pushpa Kamal Dahal

In office
22 March 2000 – 26 July 2001
Monarch Birendra
Dipendra
Gyanendra
Preceded by Krishna Prasad Bhattarai
Succeeded by Sher Bahadur Deuba

In office
15 April 1998 – 31 May 1999
Monarch Birendra
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
Head of State of Nepal
Acting

In office
15 January 2007 – 23 July 2008
Preceded by Gyanendra (King)
Succeeded by Ram Baran Yadav (President)


Born 1925
Biratnagar, Nepal
Died 20 March 2010
Political party Nepali Congress
Spouse(s) Sushma Koirala
Children Sujata Koirala
Residence Kathmandu, Nepal

Girija Prasad Koirala

Girija Prasad Koirala (20 February 1925 – 20 March 2010),^[1] commonly known as G. P. Koirala (Nepali: गिरिजा प्रसाद कोइराला), was a Nepalese politician and the President of the Nepali Congress, a major political party. He had been Prime Minister of Nepal four times, serving from 1991 to 1994, 1998 to 1999, 2000 to 2001, and from 2006 to 2008; he was also Acting Head of State from January 2007 to July 2008. He had been active in politics for over sixty years and is a pioneer of the Nepalese labour movement, having started a labor movement in the Jute mills of his hometown Biratnagar. In 1991 he became the first democratically elected Prime Minister since 1959, when his brother B. P. Koirala and the Nepali Congress party swept the country's first democratic election. In an interview with the privately owned Kantipur Television of Nepal, Mr Koirala admitted to printing fake Indian currencies to run political campaigns while being in exile in India around 1971.