Tulsi Giri (; 26 September 1926 – 18 December 2018) was the

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from 1975 to 1977, and chairman of the Council of Ministers (a ''de facto'' Prime Ministerial position) in 1963, and again in 1964 and 1965. He was born in

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, Nepal in 1926. Tulsi was a Minister in the

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government of 1959−1960 before its dissolution by King

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. He became the first Prime Minister following the two-year direct rule of Mahendra. He studied at the Suri Vidyasagar College, when it was affiliated with the

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. He received a medical degree prior to entering politics. Tulsi was married 3 times and had 2 sons and 4 daughters; his third wife Sarah Giri, worked as a deaf-rights advocate. As of 2013 they had been married 34 years. As an adult Tulsi was baptized to his wife's faith,

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. He resigned as chairman Rastriya Panchayat in 1986 and moved to

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where he stayed for two years and then finally settled in

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until 2005. He died on 18 December 2018, at his home in

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aged 92, from liver cancer.

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