Nagendra Prasad Rijal was the Prime Minister of Nepal from July 16, 1973 to December 1, 1975, and from March 21, 1986 to June 18, 1986. He was born in Telia

Telia, Nepal

Telia is a village development committee in Dhankuta District in the Kosi Zone of eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2292 people living in 495 individual households....

, in Dhankuta District

Dhankuta District

Dhankuta District , a part of Kosi Zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. The district covers an area of 891 km² and has a population of 166,479., Dhankuta is the district headquarters and a major administrative region in the Eastern...

 of Nepal

Nepal

Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...

 to a wealthy land-owning Brahmin

Brahmin

Brahmin Brahman, Brahma and Brahmin.Brahman, Brahmin and Brahma have different meanings. Brahman refers to the Supreme Self...

 family. His father was Lt. Bishnu Prasad Rijal.

During his two terms in the capacity as the Prime Minister he contributed significantly to the upliftment of the working and impoverished peasants. Rijal promoted Nepal as being the "only Hindu

Hindu

Hindu refers to an identity associated with the philosophical, religious and cultural systems that are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent. As used in the Constitution of India, the word "Hindu" is also attributed to all persons professing any Indian religion...

 Kingdom" in the world. He was also the president of the World Hindu Federation. He presided over various projects and worked for local developments.

At the time of his death he was survived by his wife Asalata Devi Rijal, his mother, seven children, grand children and great-grand children. He was a son-in-law to the Bastola Family of Eastern Nepal,