TRIBUTE TO
NEPAL'S FREEDOM FIGHTER
MR GIRIJA PRASAD KOIRALA
Girija Prasad Koirala, Nepal's freedom fighter and political hero died on Saturday 20th March,2010 at the age of 86. He served as the Nepali congress president and as prime minister four times. Sujata Koirala is his only child.
Thousands of party cadres, leaders of different parties, and diplomats gathered there to pay their last respects. His body will be kept at the Dasharath stadium on Sunday 21st March morning for the public to pay their homage.
The funeral will take place in the Sunday evening and his daughter will perform the last rites.
Koirala was an integral part of Nepal's modern political history. G.P Koirala was born in Bihar in 1925. He joined politics in this broader setting. In March 1947, he led Nepal's first workers strike at Biratnagar gute mills. He served as the political commissar on the far eastern front in the country's first democratic revolution. B.P Koirala was sworn in as Nepal's first democratically elected Prime minister in 1959
Prof. John Kurakar
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