Former Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli made his presence in public for the first time on Saturday. A few days ago, he resigned as the Prime Minister of the Himalayan nation after the protests. Oli, president of the Nepal Communist Party (Integrated Marxist-Leninist), attended a public event organized by the CPN-UML student branch, National Youth Association in Bhaktapur. Oli’s involvement in this program is seen as a strategic initiative to join the party’s youth branch, which has been criticized by the former Prime Minister for the way of dealing with the protests of Generation Z in the country. However, the CPI-UML president defended his actions, saying that his government never allowed the police to shoot at the protesters.
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73 -year -old Oli has also criticized those who damaged public properties during the agitation and said that the protesters did it intentionally ‘. Oli had said last week, “The government never ordered the police to shoot at the protesters. Investigation should find out who used automatic weapons that were not with the police. At least 74 people were killed during the protests in Nepal, which were mostly youthful. It was canceled, yet the protests continued, resulting in the Oli government collapsed.
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The protesters were demanding transparency and reforms, and many of them also vandalized government properties including Singh Darbar, Nepali Supreme Court, Federal Parliament and Sheetal Niwas. Following the protests, former Chief Justice Sushila Karki was appointed as the interim Prime Minister of Nepal. Karki has resolved to hold ‘independent and fair’ elections in the country by 5 March next year and said that his government has amended the current election law through an ordinance, which has also given the right to vote for citizens who have reached the age of 18 years.