Background
Sushil Koirala was born to Bodh Prasad Koirala and Kuminidi Koirala on 12 August 1939 in Biratnagar, second-biggest city of Nepal.
politician Member of the Parliament of Nepal
Sushil Koirala was born to Bodh Prasad Koirala and Kuminidi Koirala on 12 August 1939 in Biratnagar, second-biggest city of Nepal.
Koirala was elected as Prime Minister of Nepal by the parliament on 9 February 2014. Koirala also spent three years in Indian prisons for his involvement in a plane hijacking in 1973. Koirala was appointed acting President of the party in 2008 by President Girija Prasad Koirala.
During his tenure as prime minister, his government was criticized for its slow aid response to the April 2015 Nepal earthquake.
Honoring a pledge to stand down as prime minister once the new constitution came into effect, Koirala resigned on 10 October 2015. He sought re-election but was defeated by Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, leader of Congress" former coalition partners CPN-UML.
1991 Pratinidhi Sabha Election Banke-2
1994 Pratinidhi Sabha Election Banke-2
1999 Pratinidhi Sabha Election Banke-2
2008 Constituent Assembly Election Banke-3
Koirala lost in the 2008 Constituent Assembly elections from Banke-3 coming in third behind the candidates of the Madeshi People"s Rights Forum and the CPN (Maoist)
2013 Constituent Assembly Elections
Koirala contested the 2013 constituent assembly elections from Banke-3 and Chitwan-4, winning both races.
Koirala later relinquished the Chitwan-4 seat and represented Banke-3 in the 2nd Constituent Assembly. Banke-3
Chitwan-4.
He was also President of the Nepali Congress party from 2010 until his death, from severe pneumonia, on 9 February 2016. Koirala joined the Nepali Congress in 1952 and served in various capacities prior to becoming its president in 2010. Koirala entered politics in 1954 inspired by the social-democratic ideals of the Nepali Congress.
He was in political exile in India for 16 years following the royal takeover of 1960. While in exile, Koirala was the editor of Tarun, the official party publication. In 2001, he lost the contest for the Nepali Congress Parliamentary Party leader to Sher Bahadur Deuba.
On 22 September 2010, the 12th general convention of the Nepali Congress elected him as party President. The Nepali Congress emerged as the largest party in the 2013 Constituent Assembly elections under Koirala"s leadership. He was elected leader of the Nepali Congress Parliamentary party securing 105 out of 194 votes against former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba"s 89 votes and on 10 February 2014 he was nominated as prime minister.
A historic agreement among four major political parties was also made that year, which paved the way for a new constitution in the country. He was elected to the Pratinidhi Sabha from the Banke-2 constituency in 1991 and 1999 on a Nepali Congress ticket.
He has been a member of the Central Working Committee of the party since 1979 and was appointed General Secretary of the party in 1996 and Vice President in 1998.