Girija Prasad Koirala passes away
Mar 20th, 2010 | Category: Breaking News, World News
The former Nepalese Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala has died in Kathmandu today. He was 86 years old. Mr Koirala served four terms as PM with the Nepali Congress Party and led protests that brought down King Gyanendra’s authoritarian rule.
Thousands of supporters had gathered outside his daughter’s house where he was taken after being in hospital for several days.
Mr Koirala’s political career spanned seven decades. He first came to prominence as a union leader in the late 1940s, and he was imprisoned, exiled or detained on numerous occasions for championing the cause of democracy against various autocratic regimes