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BP Koirala never offered Nepal to India. It was a drunken King Tribhuvan who did (at a party hosted in his honor by Nehru in New Delhi) and since the king was drunk at the time, Nehru simply laughed it off and never mentioned the topic again. Neither did the king after he became sober. So please get your facts right before asking such a misleading question. I think you’ve been listening to too much royalist (rajabadi) propaganda. BP’s younger brother Girija Prasad Koirala (or GP Koirala) was just 26 years old in 1951 and only a mid-level leader of Nepali Congress at the time. So, he couldn’t have offered Nepal to Nehru. Look at this timeline. BP Koirala was elected prime minister in 1959 and ousted by King Mahendra in an army coup in 1961. In the year you have mentioned (1951), he was Home Minister for just 9 months in a government led by the overthrown hereditary Rana Prime Minister Mohan Shamsher JB Rana. The 104-year old Rana family rule had just ended and the king’s royal executive...

BP Koirala never offered Nepal to India. It was a drunken King Tribhuvan who did (at a party hosted in his honor by Nehru in New Delhi) and since the king was drunk at the time, Nehru simply laughed it off and never mentioned the topic again. Neither did the king after he became sober. So please get your facts right before asking such a misleading question. I think you’ve been listening to too much royalist (rajabadi) propaganda. BP’s younger brother Girija Prasad Koirala (or GP Koirala) was just 26 years old in 1951 and only a mid-level leader of Nepali Congress at the time. So, he couldn’t have offered Nepal to Nehru. Look at this timeline. BP Koirala was elected prime minister in 1959 and ousted by King Mahendra in an army coup in 1961. In the year you have mentioned (1951), he was Home Minister for just 9 months in a government led by the overthrown hereditary Rana Prime Minister Mohan Shamsher JB Rana. The 104-year old Rana family rule had just ended and the king’s royal executive...

The protesters, who say Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli's decision on December 20 was unconstitutional, rallied outside his office despite coronavirus curbs on gatherings. Kathmandu: Thousands of opponents of Nepal's Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli marched through the streets of Kathmandu on Tuesday urging him to withdraw his decision to dissolve parliament and call for early elections. The protesters, who say his decision on December 20 was unconstitutional, rallied outside his office despite coronavirus curbs on gatherings. Oli says internal squabbling and a lack of cooperation from his party has paralysed decision-making, forcing him to seek a fresh popular mandate. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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