Kathmandu: Former Nepal prime minister K P Sharma Oli’s father, Mohan Prasad Oli, passed away after a prolonged illness on Friday.

He was 97.

Mohan Prasad Oli breathed his last early in the morning at the Nepal-Korea Friendship Hospital in Bhaktapur district, where he was undergoing treatment for some time, according to the CPN-UML sources.

Oli, the chair of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), lit his father's funeral pyre at Pashupati Aryaghat in Kathmandu later in the day, the party sources said.

Oli, the four-time prime minister ousted in September last year after a massive Gen Z-led protests, lost the recently concluded general election to former Kathmandu Mayor Balendra Shah 'Balen' from the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) in Jhapa 5 constituency in eastern Nepal.