First rana prime minister of nepal
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Chapters
Introduction to Mohan Shumsher
Mohan Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, the eldest son of Chandra Shumsher, was the last Prime Minister of Nepal and the First Prime Minister of Nepal after the end of the Rana Regime.
He was born in 1885 A.D. (1942 B.S.) and was ambitious, autocratic, and Anti-Liberal like his father.
Reign of Mohan Shumsher
Mohan Shumsher was married to multiple women and had two sons and six daughters. He worked in the post of General for a long time and gained a lot of influence in politics during the reign of his father, Chandra Shamsher. In 1959, he became the Commanding General, and later in 1986 BS, he was appointed Prime Minister.
Mohan Shumsher was no less ambitious and autocratic than his father. He had a child’s habit of praising Shri 5 Tribhuvan and even instituted the custom of having kings and princes rush to the office of Shri 3 Maharaj on certain days.
However, Mohan Shumsher’s harsh reality was that if the people were aware, the Rana regime’s existence would come to an end.
Mohan Shumsher conducted numerous far-reach
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Why I wrote ‘Kingdom Lost’
I was 13 years old when the Rana regime ended in February 1951. The epic impact and dimensions of the change hardly registered in my mind except that the ‘Kangresis’ will now be in power but Maharaja Mohan Shumsher still remained the PM and his brother and my grandfather Baber Shamsher would be the Minister of Defense in a joint Rana-Congress coalition. BP Koirala and Ganesman Singh would be prominent ministers.
Schooled privately by teachers inside Baber Mahal where I lived until 1966, I was sent to a school called Daly College in Indore. Then I learnt in April that my eldest brother Bharat had formed a new political party called Gorkha Dal (later Gorkha Parishad), to contest with Nepali Congress, and was later joined by my father Mrigendra Shumsher and another brother Jagadish Shumsher. And one fine day in April I got the news that Bharat had been arrested early morning, but was brought out of the central jail the same day, by a large crowd of supporters, and rearrested after a dramatic day of action and counter action.
My destiny
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Mohan Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana cabinet
Mohan Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana formed the first government of Nepal after the 1951 democracy movement. The government was formed by the proclamation of King Tribhuvan on 17 February 1951 and incorporated members of the Rana regime and the Nepali Congress. The king retained the right to dissolve the cabinet at any time and the cabinet would be responsible to him and the prime minister was to inform the king of all decisions.[1][2]
Mohan Shumsher resigned on 12 November 1951 after Nepali Congress ministers in the cabinet resigned after calling the alliance between the two groups "unnatural".[3]
Cabinet
February 1951–May 1951
May 1951–November 1951
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