What’s changed?

The old leaders can’t even win the trust of their party members, let alone the general public.

The mindset displayed by leaders of major political parties in the past two months makes it clear that the old leaders are still not ready to change and reform their parties as per the spirit of the Gen Z uprising. Nepali youths aspired for a transformation of Nepali politics. When the Gen Z uprising toppled the government, made leaders flee their homes, hide in shelters at unknown places, it sent a chill down the leaders’ spines. Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba renounced his executive role in the party and appointed Vice-President Purna Bahadur Khadka as acting president. CPN (Maoist Centre) chair Puspa Kamal Dahal gave up his party chairmanship and declared himself coordinator of a committee to convene a general convention and elect a leadership of the party. Many saw the decisions of Deuba and Dahal positively, despite them being widely seen as too little too late.