Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev is last monarch of Nepal, who ascended to the throne after the assassination of King Birendra and the subsequent suicide of Crown Prince Dipendra, who is blamed as murderer. However, no Nepali is convinced yet that Crown Prince Dipendra killed his won family. In April 2006, the seven party alliance and the then banned political party CPN Maoist in an under ground manner staged protests and strikes in Kathmandu against King Gyanendra's direct rule. The royal government exercised minimum restraint but responded by declaring a curfew to control the deteriorating situation, which was enforced with live firearms and tear gas. 23 protestors were killed, on 21 April 2006.on May 28, 2008, more than two centuries of royal rule came to an end as the new assembly voted to declare Nepal a democratic republic. Gyanendra left the palace but remained in the country as a private citizen and businessman. Early Life: In November 1950, during a political plot, both his father and his grandfather King Tribhuvan, along with other royals, fled to India, leaving the young Prince Gyanendra as the only male member of the royal family in Nepal. He was brought back to the capital Kathmandu by the Prime Minister Mohan Shamsher, who had him declared King on 7 November 1950. Gyanendra was not only crowned but coins were issued in his name. The Rana Prime Minister provided a three hundred thousand rupee annual budget as expenditure for the King.
