Sushil Koirala

Sushil Koirala was the Prime Minister of Nepal from 11 February 2014 to 10 October 2015. He was also President of the Nepali Congress party from 2010 to 2016.

Koirala was elected as Prime Minister of Nepal by the parliament on 9 February 2014. Koirala joined the Nepali Congress in 1952 and served in various capacities prior to becoming its president in 2010.

Famous As: Former Prime Minister Of Nepal

Susil Koirala

Nationality: Nepalese

Birthday: August 12, 1939

Died At Age: 76

Sun Sign: Leo

Born In: Biratnagar, Morang, Nepal

Father: Bodh Prasad Koirala

Mother: Kuminidi Koirala

Died On: February 9, 2016

Place Of Death: Kathmandu, Nepal

Childhood & Early Life

• He was born on August 12, 1939 in the city of Biratnagar, Nepal to Bodh Prasad Koirala and Kuminidi Koirala as one of their six sons among nine children.
• He was a descendant of the famous Koirala family of Nepal. Three of his cousins namely Girija Prasad Koirala, Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala and Matrika Prasad Koirala too served as Prime Minister of Nepal at different points of time.
• Although Sushil Koirala had always maintained to have had an informal education, one of his sister-in-laws has informed that he attended a college in India from where he did his I.Com.

Personal life

Sushil Koirala was born to Bodh Prasad Koirala and Kuminidi Koirala on 12 August 1939 in Biratnagar, second-largest city of Nepal. Koirala was unmarried and known to live a simple life. A member of the politically prominent Koirala family, he was the cousin of former prime ministers Matrika Prasad Koirala, Girija Prasad Koirala and Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala.

Koirala was diagnosed with tongue cancer in 2006 and lung cancer in June 2014, despite being a heavy smoker. He died of pneumonia on February 10, 2016, at 12:50 a.m. in Kathmandu, Nepal, at the age of 76. 'Sushil daa' was his previous moniker. According to his sister-in-law, Koirala received a formal education of I.Com from an Indian institution, despite the fact that he always referred to his education as informal.

Political career

Susil Koirala

Koirala entered politics in 1954 inspired by the social-democratic ideals of the Nepali Congress. In 1958 He keenly participated in Bhadra Abagya Aandalon, (Civil Disobedience Movement) launched by the Nepali Congress. In 1959, he actively involved himself in the party's objective of carrying out the democratic elections. The election saw Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala become the first elected prime minister of the country. However, King Mahendra planned and executed a coup in December 1960 and expelled Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala. This resulted in the exile of several members of the Nepali Congress to India, which included Sushil Koirala. He remained in political exile in India for 16 years following the royal takeover of 1960. Koirala also spent three years in Indian prisons for his involvement in a plane hijacking in 1973. While in exile, Koirala was the editor of Tarun, the official party publication. He has been a member of the Central Working Committee of the party since 1979 and was appointed General Secretary of the party in 1996 and Vice President in 1998.

In 2001, he lost the contest for the Nepali Congress Parliamentary Party leader to Sher Bahadur Deuba. Koirala was appointed acting President of the party in 2008 by President Girija Prasad Koirala. On 22 September 2010, the 12th general convention of the Nepali Congress elected him as party President.

Under Koirala's leadership, the Nepali Congress won the most votes in the 2013 Constituent Assembly elections. He was elected head of the Nepali Congress Parliamentary Party with 105 out of 194 votes, defeating former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba's 89 votes, and was nominated as Prime Minister on February 10, 2014. His government was chastised during his time as Prime Minister for its sluggish response to the April 2015 Nepal earthquake. In the same year, four main political groups reached a historic agreement, paving the door for a new constitution in the country. Honoring a pledge to stand down as prime minister once the new constitution came into effect, Koirala resigned on 10 October 2015. He sought re-election but was defeated by Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, leader of Congress' former coalition partners CPN-UML.
Electoral history

He was elected to the Pratinidhi Sabha from the Banke-2 constituency in 1991 and 1999 on a Nepali Congress ticket.

1991 Pratinidhi Sabha Election Banke-2

Party	Candidate	Votes	Status
Nepali Congress	Sushil Koirala	-	Elected

1994 Pratinidhi Sabha Election Banke-2

Party	Candidate	Votes	Status
RPP	Shanti Shamsher Rana	15,711	Elected
Nepali Congress	Sushil Koirala	10,222	-

1999 Pratinidhi Sabha Election Banke-2

Party	Candidate	Votes	Status
Nepali Congress	Sushil Koirala	15,256	Elected
CPN (M.L)	Rijwan Ahammad Sah	6,185	-

2008 Constituent Assembly Election Banke-3

Koirala lost in the 2008 Constituent Assembly elections from Banke-3 coming in third behind the candidates of the Madeshi People's Rights Forum and the CPN (Maoist)

Party	Candidate	Votes	Status
M.P.R.F - Nepal	Sarbadev Prasad Ojha	14,900	Elected
UCPN (Maoists)	Parma Nanda Kurmi	6970	-
Nepali Congress	Sushil Koirala	5969

2013 Constituent Assembly Elections

Koirala contested the 2013 constituent assembly elections from Banke-3 and Chitwan-4, winning both races.[17] Koirala later relinquished the Chitwan-4 seat and represented Banke-3 in the 2nd Constituent Assembly.

Party	Candidate	Votes	Status
Nepali Congress	Sushil Koirala	10,753	Elected
R.P.P	Dhawal Shumsher Rana	8,809	-
UCPN (Maoists)	Damodar Acharya	6,135	-

Chitwan-4

Party	Candidate	Votes	Status
Nepali Congress	Sushil Koirala	20,760	Elected
UCPN (Maoists)	Chitra Bahadur Shrestha	10,739	-
CPN (UML)	Dil Kumari Rawal Thapa	10,067	-