Deuba steps aside as Congress chief in the wake of Gen Z protest

More than 54 percent of Nepali Congress representatives push for a special convention to elect new leadership.

Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba, whose house was set on fire and who, along with his wife Arzu Rana Deuba, was physically attacked and injured by an angry mob during anti-corruption protests on September 9, appeared on Tuesday at the party's central working committee meeting. He announced that he will no longer remain party president.