Monarchy abolished (Girija Prasad Koirala as the acting head of state)
Prime ministers
See list
Girija Prasad Koirala
Sher Bahadur Deuba
Lokendra Bahadur Chand
Surya Bahadur Thapa
Born
(1947-07-07) 7 July 1947 (age 76) Narayanhiti Royal Palace, Kathmandu, Nepal
Spouse
Komal Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah
(m. 1970)
Issue
Paras Shah Prerana Shah Singh
Regnal name
Shree Paanch Maharajadhiraj Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev (श्री ५ महाराजाधिराज ज्ञानेन्द्र वीर बिक्रम शाह देव)
House
Shah Dynasty
Father
Mahendra
Mother
Indra
Religion
Hinduism
Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev (Nepali: ज्ञानेन्द्र वीर विक्रम शाह देव; born 7 July 1947) is a former monarch and the last King of Nepal, reigning from 2001 to 2008. As a child, he was briefly king from 1950 to 1951, when his grandfather, Tribhuvan, took political exile in India with the rest of his family. His second reign began after the 2001 Nepalese royal massacre. Gyanendra Shah is the first person in the history of Nepal to be king twice and the last king of the Shah dynasty of Nepal.[1]
Gyanendra's second reign was marked by constitutional turmoil. His brother King Birendra had established a constitutional monarchy in which he delegated policy to a representative government. The growing insurgency of the Nepalese Civil War during Gyanendra's reign interfered with the elections of representatives. After several delays in elections, Gyanendra suspended the constitution and assumed direct authority in February 2005, asserting that it would be a temporary measure to suppress the Maoist insurgency after civil governments had failed to do so.[2] In the face of broad opposition, he restored the previous parliament in April 2006. He was deposed two years later by the first session of the Constituent Assembly, which declared the nation to be the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal and abolished the 240-year-old Shah dynasty.
^"ज्ञानेन्द्र शाह : नेपालको इतिहासमा दुई पटक राजा हुन पाए". रिपोर्टर्स नेपाल. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
^Backman, Michael (16 June 2005). Inside Knowledge: Streetwise in Asia. Springer. ISBN 978-0-230-52239-8.
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