Girija Prasad Koirala
| Girija Prasad Koirala गिरीजाप्रसाद कोइराला |
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Head of State of Nepal Acting |
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In office 15 January 2007 – 23 July 2008 |
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| Preceded by | Gyanendra (King) |
| Succeeded by | Ram Baran Yadav (President) |
| 30th Prime Minister of Nepal | |
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In office 25 April 2006 – 18 August 2008 |
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| Monarch | Gyanendra |
| Deputy | Ram Chandra Poudel |
| Preceded by | Sher Bahadur Deuba |
| Succeeded by | Pushpa Kamal Dahal |
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In office 22 March 2000 – 26 July 2001 |
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| Monarch |
Birendra Dipendra Gyanendra |
| Preceded by | Krishna Prasad Bhattarai |
| Succeeded by | Sher Bahadur Deuba |
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In office 15 April 1998 – 31 May 1999 |
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| Monarch | Birendra |
| Preceded by | Surya Bahadur Thapa |
| Succeeded by | Krishna Prasad Bhattarai |
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In office 26 May 1991 – 30 November 1994 |
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| Monarch | Birendra |
| Preceded by | Krishna Prasad Bhattarai |
| Succeeded by | Man Mohan Adhikari |
| 5th President of the Nepali Congress | |
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In office 11 May 1996 – 20 March 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Krishna Prasad Bhattarai |
| Succeeded by | Sushil Koirala |
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4 July 1924 Saharsa, Bihar, British Raj (present-day India) |
| Died | 20 March 2010 (aged 85) Kathmandu, Nepal |
| Political party | Nepali Congress |
| Spouse(s) | Sushma Koirala (deceased) |
| Children | Sujata |
Girija Prasad Koirala (Nepali: गिरीजाप्रसाद कोइराला 
Listen ; 4 July 1924 – 20 March 2010), commonly known as G.P. Koirala, was a Nepalese politician. He headed the Nepali Congress and served as the Prime Minister of Nepal on four occasions, including from 1991 to 1994, 1998 to 1999, 2000 to 2001, and from 2006 to 2008. He was the Acting Head of State of Nepal between January 2007 and July 2008 as the country transitioned from a monarchy to a republic.
Koirala, who was active in politics for over sixty years, was a pioneer of the Nepalese labour movement, having started the first political workers' movement in nepali soil known as Biratnagar jute mill strike at the his hometown, Biratnagar. In 1991 he became the first democratically elected Prime Minister since 1959, when his brother B.P. Koirala and the Nepali Congress party were swept into power in the country's first democratic election.
Koirala was born in Saharsa, Bihar, British India, in 1924. His father, Krishna Prasad Koirala, was a Nepali living in exile. In 1952 Koirala married Sushma Koirala, headmistress at the local school for women in Biratnagar. Their daughter Sujata Koirala was born in 1953. Sushma died in a kerosene stove explosion in 1967.
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