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Sushil Koirala's Death - Truth or Mystery?
Sushil Koirala Conspiracy
Koirala, who was also President of the main opposition Nepali Congress, died at 12:50 am, according to his personal physician Dr Karbir Nath Yogi.Koirala, 76, was down with pneumonia and fever over the last few days. But his health condition was not considered ‘worrisome’, and he also was in good spirits as he ate a bowl of rice gruel before going to bed Monday night. He suddenly began coughing and then lost consciousness at midnight. Dr Yogi called for an ambulance, but the septuagenarian leader had died before the ambulance arrived.
An emergency cabinet meeting Tuesday decided to honour Koirala with a state funeral and declared a public holiday on Wednesday.
Koirala’s body has been kept on the premises of the NC headquarters in Sanepa, Lalitpur. President Bidya Bhandari, Prime Minister KP Oli, political leaders, diplomats, and common citizens alike have been paying their final tributes to him.
India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has arrived in Kathmandu to pay her respects to Koirala. India’s President Pranab Mukherjee also expressed his condolences, sharing a tweet that read: “The people of India share the sorrow and grief of the people of Nepal over the loss of Shri Sushil Koirala.”
Koirala’s political career spanning over six decades began in 1957, when he was just a 16-year-old boy. The 104-year-long Rana oligarchy had ended just seven years before, and Nepal had been newly minted a democracy.
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