Within days of Shah assuming office, former prime minister K. P. Sharma Oli and former home minister Ramesh Lekhak were arrested on Saturday in connection with the deaths of students during last year’s Gen Z-led revolt, an episode that had come to symbolize the angst of Nepal’s youth against the old political establishment.
Nepal’s new leadership has acted on a probe into protest violence, ordering arrests of top former officials as accountability questions intensify over deaths during the Gen Z movement crackdown.
Oli was taken into custody from his residence in Gundu, Bhaktapur, while Lekhak was arrested earlier the same morning from his residence in Suryabinayak, Bhaktapur.
With two of four seats declared and leads in 101 constituencies out of 165 where direct elections are held, the newbie RSP party led by former Kathmandu Mayor Balendra 'Balen' Shah looks set to form the government
On 5 March, nearly 19 million citizens of Nepal will vote to choose a new House of Representatives.
The Supreme Court's order has reduced the cabinet to five members including himself, and the Ministers for Finance, Education, Physical Infrastructure and Transport and Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs.
The political kerfuffle escalates as Nepal is battling a deadly second wave of the pandemic and is reporting 8,207 new infections on an average each day.
A total of 192 small, medium-sized and large factories are expected to be set up inside the Nepal-China Friendship Industrial Park in the first phase.
Nepal's 275-member House of Representatives was elected in 2017. The next general election in the Himalayan country was due in 2022.
PM Oli was under pressure to withdraw an ordinance related to the Constitutional Council Act that he had issued on Tuesday and got endorsed by President Bidya Devi Bhandari the same day.
