Prithvi Narayan Shah

Prithvi Narayan Shah was born on Poush 27, 1779 in Gorkha. Prithvi Narayan Shah ascended the throne in 1799 BS after death of his father Narabhupal Shah.

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Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah

Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev

Prime Minister of Nepal

Gyanendra owns a number of properties and businesses, which include a large stake in the Soaltee Group, the third-largest business group in Nepal, with estimated net assets of $100m.

Shailaja Acharya (Nepali: शैलजा आचार्य) (1944 – 12 June 2009) was a Nepali revolutionary, politician and diplomat. She was the first Nepali woman Minister of Water Resources, and the first Nepali woman deputy prime minister….

Chronological list of female Indian chief ministers

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Lord Mountbatten swears in Jawaharlal Nehru as the first prime minister of India on 15 August 1947.

On 26 January 1950 Govind Ballabh Pant, Premier of United Provinces, became the first Chief Minister of the newly renamed Uttar Pradesh. Including him, 11 out of UP’s 21 chief ministers belonged to the Indian National Congress.

Sucheta Mazumdar her married name, Sucheta Kripalani, (25 June 1908 – 1 December 1974) was an Indian freedom fighter and politician. She was India’s first woman Chief Minister, serving as the head of the Uttar Pradesh government from 1963 to 1967.

Indira Gandhi. listen); née Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician and a central figure of the Indian National Congress. She was the first and, to date, only female Prime Minister of India.

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Officially issued by President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed under Article 352 of the Constitution because of the prevailing “internal disturbance”, the Emergency was in effect from 25 June 1975 until its withdrawal on 21 March 1977. The Emergency is one of the most controversial periods of independent India’s history.

In India, President’s rule is the suspension of state government and imposition of direct Union government rule in a state. When a state government is functioning correctly, it is run by an elected Council of Ministers responsible to the state’s legislative assembly (Vidhan Sabha).

Press censorship and forced sterilization brought discontent among the people of the country. Most importantly, the 42nd constitutional amendment which brought a series of changes weakened the democratic fabric of the country. Thus, the emergency was no less than a setback to the Indian democracy.

Changes after emergency The ruling Congress lost control of India for the first time in independent India in the Indian general election, 1977. Congress lost its power and became weak. The party lost around 200 seats. Four major opposition parties were unified into the Janata Party by Jayaprakash Narayan.

Emergency Provisions are contained in Part Eighteen of the Constitution of India. The President of India has the power to impose emergency rule in any or all the Indian states if the security of part or all of India is threatened by “war or external aggression or armed rebellion”.

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