New Nepal PM: Ex Chief Justice Sushila Karki To Take Oath As Interim Nepal PM Soon

Capping days of speculation, the Nepal president's office has announced that former chief justice Sushila Karki will be the interim prime minister of the country and will take oath at 9 pm. The decision was arrived at following a consensus between Gen-Z protesters, President Ram Chandra Paudel and army chief Ashok Raj Sigdel. Sources said Ms Karki, who will create history by becoming the first woman prime minister of Nepal, will have a small cabinet in the caretaker government, and the first meeting will be held on Friday night itself. The cabinet is likely to recommend the dissolution of the federal parliament as well as all seven provincial parliaments. After three days of protests, which were triggered by a ban on some social media platforms and anger against corruption, a consensus appeared to be building among the Gen-Z protesters on Wednesday around Ms Karki's name to head a caretaker government until the next elections.