New Delhi:
Kathmandu is bracing for a new chapter in its tumultuous political history, as former chief justice Sushila Karki prepares to be sworn in tonight as Nepal’s interim Prime Minister. The swearing-in ceremony, scheduled at the presidential residence in Shital Niwas, will be followed immediately by the first meeting of the new cabinet.
The consensus behind this step, according to sources, was reached between President Ramchandra Paudel, representatives of Nepal’s Generation Z protest movement, and the chief of the Nepal Army, General Ashok Raj Sigdel. The deal was finalised after days of unprecedented protests that culminated in the resignation of former prime minister KP Sharma Oli.
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