It has been reported that actress Manisha Koirala is set to dabble in Nepali politics. However, her ideological stance is still unknown.
In 2002, when King Gyanendra started controlling the government by dismissing then prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and appointing three premiers of his own choice, Manisha and her father Prakash Koirala publicly supported the monarch.
Her father was given the post of education minister during the king's 14-month rule. Her granduncle, GP Koirala, was prime minister in the seven-party alliance government that forced the king to quit power in April 2006 post a 19-day uprising.
It is unclear whether Manisha will carry on the pro-democracy legacy left behind by her grandfather BP Koirala and granduncle GP Koirala, both former prime ministers of Nepal, or if she will follow in her father's footsteps.
Do you think Manisha Koirala will make a successful politician? Or will her family's erstwhile support to the monarchy and her own Bohemian, controversy-courting lifestyle prove to be her undoing?
