Jammu, July 13 -- PM Balen Shah is being accused of same vices that let to Oli's ouster
By Asad Mirza
Ten months after toppling one government, Nepal's Gen Z is confronting the one it built. A brutal eviction drive, a driver's self-immolation and a widening crackdown on dissent are testing whether Balen Shah's "new politics" differs from the old.
Nepal is witnessing an uncomfortable rerun. Less than a year after a youth uprising burned down Singha Durbar and forced KP Sharma Oli from office, the generation that engineered that upheaval is back on the streets - this time against the very leader it helped install.
Prime Minister Balendra Shah, the rapper-engineer-turned-mayor who rode Gen Z's fury to a landslide victory in March 2026, is ...