Kathmandu, March 13 -- After Nepali Congress leaders demanded their party leadership step down following the party's debacle in the March 5 snap parliamentary elections, CPN-UML leaders are also facing internal pressure to do the same.

The strengths of the two largest parties from the dissolved parliament have been reduced to around one-third in the snap elections, which followed September's anti-corruption Gen Z movement that toppled the UML-Congress coalition government led by KP Sharma Oli. As the Election Commission prepares to announce the final results, the pro-Gen Z Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) is set to claim 182 seats. This includes 57 under the proportional representation (PR) category and leaves the party just two seats shor...