His Majesty King Birendra's first address to a multiparty Parliament following the restoration of democracy in Nepal was in 1991, after the first general elections were held under the 1990 Constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal. ​Prior to this, from 1962 to 1990, the country was ruled under the partyless Panchayat System, where King Birendra held absolute power, and there was no multiparty parliament. ​The key sequence of events leading to this was: ​April 1990: The People's Movement (Jana Andolan

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