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Shailaja Acharya
Shailaja Acharya (c. 1944–June 12, 2009) was a Nepalese [3] ^ Shailaja Acharya passes away; top political
politician. She was a senior member of the Nepali leaders pay their last respects
Congress party. She was the nation’s first female Deputy [4] ^ Nepal’s first woman deputy PM Shailaja dies
Prime Minister for a brief period in 1998.[1][2]
Acharya was the niece of Nepal’s first elected prime
minister Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala and of Congress
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president Girija Prasad Koirala. She was also the aunt of • Remembering Shailaja Acharya by Arun Sharma,
bollywood actor Manisha Koirala.[3][4] Telegraph Nepal, June 25, 2009
She died on June 12, 2009 at Tribhuvan University Persondata
Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu. She had been suffering Name Acharya, Shailaja
from Alzheimer’s disease and pneumonia. She was
65.[3][4] Alternative names
Short description
References Date of birth
Place of birth
[1] Woman Vice Premier Ministers and Deputy Chiefs
of Government 1990-1999 Date of death 2009
[2] Manisha Koirala’s aunt is new Nepal ambassador to Place of death
India (note: post not taken up due to illness)
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