Tulsi Giri

Tulsi Giri
तुल्सी गिरी
Prime Minister of Nepal
In office 26 December 1960 – 23 December 1963
Monarch	King Birendra
Preceded by	Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala
Succeeded by	Surya Bahadur Thapa
In office 26 February 1964 – 26 January 1965
Monarch	King Birendra
Preceded by	Surya Bahadur Thapa
Succeeded by	Surya Bahadur Thapa
In office 1 December 1975 – 12 September 1977
Monarch	King Birendra
Preceded by	Nagendra Prasad Rijal
Succeeded by	Kirti Nidhi Bista
Personal details
Born	(1926-09-26) 26 September 1926 Siraha District, Nepal
Citizenship	Nepalese
Political party	Independent
Residence	Bangalore, India
Occupation	Politician
Religion	Jehovah's Witnesses

Tulsi Giri (Nepali: तुलसी गिरि born 26 September 1926) was the Prime Minister of Nepal from 1975 to 1977, and chairman of the Council of Ministers (a de facto Prime Ministerial position) between 1960 and 1963, and again in 1964 and 1965. He was born in Siraha District, Nepal in 1926.

Tulsi was also a Minister in the Congress government of 1959-1960, before its dissolution by King Mahendra. He was the first prime-minister under the dictatorship. He studied at the Suri Vidyasagar College, when it was affiliated with the University of Calcutta. He received his medical degree but politics soon became his life.

Tulsi has had numerous wives and children and is currently married to Sarah Giri, Sarah is a deaf-rights advocate. As of 2013 they have been married 34 years.

As an adult Tulsi was baptized to this wife's faith, becoming one of 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 Bangalore, India till 2005.

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Political offices
Preceded by Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala	Prime Minister of Nepal 1960 – 1963	Succeeded by Surya Bahadur Thapa
Preceded by Surya Bahadur Thapa	Prime Minister of Nepal 1964 – 1965	Succeeded by Surya Bahadur Thapa
Preceded by Nagendra Prasad Rijal	Prime Minister of Nepal 1975 – 1977	Succeeded by Kirti Nidhi Bista