Tulsi Giri (Maithili: तुलसी गिरि; 26 September 1926 – 18 December 2018) was the Prime Minister of Nepal[1] from 1975 to 1977, and chairman of the Council of Ministers (a de facto Prime Ministerial position) in 1963, and again in 1964 and 1965. He was born in Siraha District, Nepal in 1926.[2] Tulsi was a Minister in the Congress government of 1959−1960 before its dissolution by King Mahendra. He became the first Prime Minister following the two-year period of Mahendra's direct rule. He studied at the Suri Vidyasagar College, when it was affiliated with the University of Calcutta.[3] He received a medical degree prior to entering politics.[4]
Tulsi was married 3 times and had 2 sons and 4 daughters, as of 2005, to Sarah Giri, a deaf-rights advocate. As of 2013 they had been married 34 years.[5] As an adult Tulsi was baptized to his wife's faith, Jehovah's Witnesses.[6] He resigned as chairman Rastriya Panchayat in 1986 and moved to Sri Lanka[7] where he stayed for two years and then finally settled in Bangalore, India until 2005. He died on December 18, 2018, at his home in Budhanilkantha, Kathmandu aged 92, from liver cancer.[8]