Kathmandu, December 18
Former Prime Minister and senior politician Tulsi Giri passed away on Tuesday morning. He was 93.
According to his family, Giri breathed his last at his residence in Budhanilkantha. He was diagnosed with liver cancer and was admitted to Medicity Hospital for the last 10 days.
Giri, a hardliner Panchayat insider, lent unwavering support to the Panchayat dictatorship of King Mahendra in the 1960s.
Giri left for Sri Lanka in 1979 after he was not satisfied with then King Birendra to conduct a referendum on the fate of the Panchayat system. However, he came back in 2003 after King Gyanendra assumed power. He was named the vice chairman of the council of ministers.
He is survived by his wife, two sons and two daughters.
