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Woman claiming that she is daughter of former prime minister Sushil Koirala
NC President and former PM Sushil Koirala.
Former Nepali Prime Minister Sushil Koirala, a moderate figure in the impoverished country’s unsettled politics, died on Tuesday, presenting a potential hurdle in attempts to win greater rights for minorities in a new constitution.Koirala, 78, a senior figure in one of Nepal’s biggest political dynasties, stood down as prime minister in October. He died overnight of respiratory illness, one of his doctors said, at his nephew’s home in Kathmandu.He had helped prepare Nepal’s first republican constitution that, its authors hoped, would take the Himalayan nation closer to stability and peace after years of conflict and the abolition of the 239-year-old monarchy.
Nepali Congress said its leader and former Prime Minister Sushil Koirala‘s funeral will be carried out in Kathmandu tomorrow.Nepali Congress President and former Prime Minister Sushil Koirala passed away at 12:50 am on Tuesday.
Family source said that he breathed his last at his residence in Maharajgunj. Koirala’s private doctor Dr Kabirnath Yogi said that Koirala died of cardiac arrest after he developed pneumonia in bronchitis’ infection due to change in the weather.
Koirala had shown symptoms since three months and was using three types of antibiotics.
“Everything was normal till Monday evening, the amount of oxygen being administrated to him was increased,” Yogi said, “He had a normal meal yesterday evening.
All of sudden, Koirala’s health deteriorated and he breathed his last at 12:50 am.” Koirala had served as Nepal's 37th prime minister from February 10, 2014 to October 10, 2015.
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