Gyanendra

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Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev ( Nepali : ज्ञानेन्द्र वीर विक्रम शाहदेव; * July 7, 1947 in Kathmandu ) was King of Nepal from 1950 to 1951 and from 2001 to 2008 . He took this office after the violent death of his older brother Birendra and his nephew Dipendra and was Nepal's last king.

Gyanendra (2012)

Life

Gyanendra was born on July 7, 1947 as the son of Crown Prince Mahendra in Kathmandu . After his grandfather, King Tribhuvan , fled to India with a large part of the royal family due to tensions with Prime Minister Mohan Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana , Gyanendra was proclaimed king for the first time at the age of three on November 6, 1950. However, after the return of the royal family and the removal of the prime minister on February 18, 1951, Tribhuvan was reinstated as king.

After attending school in Darjeeling , India , Gyanendra studied at Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu. In 1977 he was appointed a member of the State Council. King Birendra and part of the royal family were murdered under mysterious circumstances on June 1, 2001 . The alleged perpetrator, Crown Prince Dipendra , was then proclaimed king, but died after three days of the consequences of his presumably self-inflicted injuries without having woken up from the coma. As a result, Gyanendra ascended the throne on June 4th. According to other suspicions from the population and the media, the murders were carried out by or on behalf of Gyanendra in order to pave the way for him to the throne.

In February 2005, Gyanendra dismissed the government after accusing it of failure to prepare for the April 2005 elections and to fight the Communist Party of Nepal , which had fought for years against the Nepalese monarchy and for the establishment of a Marxist state. The day after the government was dismissed, he himself took over the management of an emergency cabinet. After two weeks of bloody unrest against direct royal rule, Gyanendra was forced to convene the elected parliament again in April 2006 and hand over executive power to the party-elected Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala . In June 2006, Parliament decided to abolish most of the king's rights under the old constitution. The interim constitution entrusted the prime minister with the exercise of these prerogatives. By this time Gyanendra had already lost all stake in state affairs. In August 2007, all properties that Gyanendra had inherited from his predecessor were nationalized by a resolution of the transitional government. Property owned by the king prior to his accession to the throne was exempt from this decision.

On December 28, parliament finally passed a law that provided for the proclamation of the republic at the constituent session of the constituent assembly after the constituent assembly election in April 2008. On May 28, 2008, this resolution was passed with a large majority, thereby abolishing the monarchy. Gyanendra and his family were asked to leave the royal palace in Kathmandu within 14 days so that it could be converted into a museum.

Even before the decision, the Maoist leader Prachanda announced that if Gyanendra refused to live as an ordinary citizen, he would face a "trial and severe punishment". The former king announced that he wanted to stay in the country.

Web links

 Wikinews: Gyanendra  - on the news

Individual evidence

  1. Nepal's Royal Family - Death in the Himalayas. (No longer available online.) In: YouTube. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 4, 2021 (documentation from Phoenix ).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.youtube.com
  2. ^ Nepal nationalises royal palaces. In: BBC News . August 23, 2007, accessed May 29, 2008 .
  3. Nepal votes to abolish monarchy. In: BBC News. May 28, 2008, accessed May 29, 2008 .
predecessor Office successor
Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah King of Nepal
1950–1951
Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah
Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev King of Nepal
2001–2008
Proclamation of the Republic , President Ram Baran Yadav