India, May 5 -- The events of 8-9 September 2025 will be remembered in Nepal for a long time books for its consequential political ramifications.

The House of Representatives was disbanded. The Prime Minister K P Oli decided not to resign, and in another huge lapse of statecraft, he was apparently told by the Army Chief that security would be enforced only after his resignation, which he then did.

Not a single firetruck went out to control as Singha Darbar, the Supreme Court, Parliament, supermarkets and private homes were set on fire. The report of the investigation commission focused only on the 8 September violence, and was conspicuously silent on the violence and arson on 9 September.

Quickly, a new non-party interim government ...