BP’s Vision For Changing Geopolitics

Forty-six years ago, on Paush 16, 2033, (December 30, 1976), Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala, popularly known as BP Koirala, decided to end his eight years of exile in India. Koirala, who was the leader of 1950-51 popular democratic revolution, became the first ever elected prime minister of Nepal after the first general elections in 1958-59 for five years. King Mahendra dismissed the Koirala cabinet in 18 months of five-year term, imprisoned the Prime Minister and his cabinet colleagues for no fault of theirs. They suffered from rigorous imprisonment for eight long years. After his release in 1968, circumstances forced BP into exile in India where he lived for eight years and guided Nepal’s ongoing democratic movement.