Mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City Balen Shah has urged Gen Z protesters to return to their homes.
“Please, Gen Z! The country is now in your hands. You will be the one who makes it. All the damage now will be to ourselves. Please return home,” he wrote on Facebook on Tuesday evening.
The young protesters have revered the rapper-mayor, urging him to take the lead in the movement.
Mayor Shah’s appeal comes at a time when the protesters have not given up damaging public buildings and setting them on fire. The security forces in Kathmandu have already given up. KP Sharma Oli has resigned as the Prime Minister.
Gen Z protesters have burned down Singha Durbar–the country’s administrative centre, Federal Parliament complex at Baneshwar, Office of the President at Sital Niwas, and numerous police stations in the valley. Protesters have also set the residences of ministers and major political leaders ablaze.
They have seriously injured former Prime Minister and Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba and his wife, Foreign Minister Arzu Rana Deuba.
Gen Z protesters have also freed Rabi Lamichhane, the president of Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), from Nakkhu Prison in Lalitpur. Lamichhane, who is popular among a certain section of youth, has been facing charges of cooperative embezzlement. Other prisoners have also been reportedly set free as a result of this attempt.
The Nepal Army, Nepal Police, and Armed Police Force have also urged the protesters to calm down.
