Tulsi Giri ( mai, तुलसी गिरि; 26 September 1926 – 18 December 2018) was the

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Nepal Nepal (; ne, :ne:नेपाल, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in S ...

from 1975 to 1977, and chairman of the Council of Ministers (a ''de facto'' Prime Ministerial position) in 1963, and again in 1964 and 1965. He was born in

Siraha District Siraha District ( ne, सिराहा जिल्ला; ), a district in Madhesh Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. It is situated in the Terai belt of Nepal. The district, with Siraha as its district headquarters, ...

, Nepal in 1926. Tulsi was a Minister in the

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government of 1959−1960 before its dissolution by King Mahendra. He became the first Prime Minister following the two-year period of Mahendra's direct rule. He studied at the Suri Vidyasagar College, when it was affiliated with the

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. He received a medical degree prior to entering politics. Tulsi was married 3 times and had 2 sons and 4 daughters, as of 2005, to Sarah Giri, a deaf-rights advocate. As of 2013 they had been married 34 years. As an adult Tulsi was baptized to his wife's faith, Jehovah's Witnesses. He resigned as chairman Rastriya Panchayat in 1986 and moved to Sri Lanka where he stayed for two years and then finally settled in

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until 2005. He died on December 18, 2018, at his home in

Budhanilkantha Budhanilkantha is a city and municipality in Kathmandu district of Bagmati Province, Bagmati province of Nepal. It is the 3rd largest List of cities in Nepal, city in the Kathmandu Valley after Kathmandu and Lalitpur, Nepal, Lalitpur. As per 2021 ...

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aged 92, from liver cancer.

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