Nepal Prime Minister Sushil Koirala Resigns.
Nepali Prime Minister Sushil Koirala announced his resignation in Parliament on Friday and said he will submit his resignation to President Ram Baran Yadav shortly. Koirala said he resigned to pave way for the election of a new prime minister. Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), is tipped to become the next prime minister of the country.
Koirala, the leader of the Nepali Congress, was elected as Prime Minister on February 10, 2014. Late last month, President Ram Baran Yadav had announced the adoption of a new secular and democratic constitution, which marked Nepal’s transformation from a Hindu monarchy to a secular democracy.
K.P. Oli was born on 22 February 1952 in Atharai Iwa, Terhathum, Nepal where he spent most of his childhood days. Oli lost his mother, when he was the tender age of 3. He went on to attend Adarsha Secondary School based in Jhapa. In 2028 of the Nepali calendar BS, he passed his SLC examination and thus completed class 10. He did not study further than that. However, he recently got a doctorate from Green Ford International University. He was keen on becoming either a teacher or get into the medical or engineering field. Instead, he went on to join politics.
KP began his political baby steps by landing on the political activities in 1966 influenced from Marxism-Leninism. Gradually, he went on to become the Member of Communist Party of Nepal in February 1970. He was always against violence and thus got involved in subversive politics in contradiction of tyrannical party-less Panchayat System in that time. For his activities, he was arrested for the first time in 1970.A year later he became the District committee member of party and soon the Chief of the Jhapa Movement Organizing Committee in 1972. For his movement, Oli was arrested and confined into the numerous jails and toxic cells of Nepal for 14 consecutive years throughout 1973 to 1987. After being released for jail in the year 1987, he became a Central Committee Member of UML as an in-charge for Lumbini Zone until 1990. He then went on to hold the post of chief of foreign department of CPN (UML) in 1992. Oli became the Founder president of the National Democratic Youth Federation of Nepal(DNYF).
Subsequently, he became a member of the parliament in the House of Representatives (HOR) from Jhapa district’s electorate no. 6 in the year 1991 and from Jhapa electorate no. 2 in 1999 as well. In no time, he became the Chief of the department of publicity and propaganda .In the ever changing political situation of Nepla, Oli became the Cabinet Minister: Ministry of Home through the short period of 1994 to 1995. Then in 2006, Oli became the Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal during the interim government. He was also assigned to look into the death of fellow politician Madan Bhandari. From April 2006 to 2007, KP was assigned as the Minister of Foreign Affairs. While in the 2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly, Oli defeated and won the Jhapa–7 seat in 2013 as a CPN-UML contender . Oli is currently designated as the Chief International Dept of the CPN-UML Parliamentary Party.
Oli is married and his wife is Radhika Shakya, with whom he has a daughter. He met his wife after he got out of jail. The couple has been married for long and hadn’t had any reported divorce and conflict. He currently resides in Bhaktapur with his family.Oli is currently 63 years old, has travelled around 30 countries across the world and has gained a lot of political success of being one the chief of one of the most recognized parties of Nepal.
