The Prime Minister of Nepal resigned on Tuesday after demonstrators set fire to houses of the best political leaders in the country during violent demonstrations against a ban on social media platforms and corruption of the government.
The departure of Khadga Prasad Oli comes a day after the police opened fire on the demonstrators, killing 19 in the capital of Nepal of Kathmandu.
“Given the adverse situation in the country, I introduced today to facilitate the solution to the problem and to resolve politics in accordance with the Constitution,” Oli wrote in his letter of resignation to President Ram Chandra Poul To Reuters.
Poudel’s house was one of the fire. Properties of Sher Bahadur Deuba, the leader of the largest party in the Nepalese Congress, Minister of the Interior Ramesh Lekhak and Maoist Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the leader of the Communist Party of Nepal, were also focused in the Blazes.
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Protesters use sticks and stones while bumping with riot police during a protest outside the parliament building in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Monday 8 September 2025. (Prabin Ranabhat/AFP via Getty images)
Witnesses told the local media that some ministers were flown in safety by military helicopters, while the most important airport of Kathmandu was closed on Tuesday due to smoke from the nearby fires, Reuters reported.
The violence unfolded when the government of Nepal threatened a broader attempt to regulate social media with a bill to ensure that the platforms are ‘correctly managed, responsible and responsible’.
Various commonly used social networks, including Facebook, X and YouTube, were blocked in Nepal last week after they fail to comply with a new requirement to register and to submit to government supervision.
Protesters walk along the flames outside the Burning Nepali Congress Party Office in Kathmandu on Tuesday 9 September 2025. (Prabin Ranabhat/AFP via Getty images)
The prohibition, which had been criticized on a large scale as a tool for censorship and for punishing opponents of the government who express their protests online, was lifted on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported.
An evening clock was imposed in the capital and other cities and schools in Kathmandu were closed. According to Reuters, however, demonstrations were still underway and demonstrators threw stones at the police in the police.
“Punishing the murders in the government. Stop killing children,” the protesters reportedly sang on Tuesday, while the police used speakers to trace them back home.
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Protesters destroy the Nepali Congress Party Office during protests in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Tuesday 9 September 2025. (AP/Niranjan Shrestha)
Oli, 73, was sworn in for his fourth term of office last July.
In the hours prior to his dismissal on Tuesday, he called for a meeting of political parties and said: “We must resort to a peaceful dialogue to find solutions to every problem,” says Reuters.
Nepal’s army said that Oli’s resignation was accepted and a statement about X shared, and added: “We sincerely urge all citizens to prevent further loss of life and property in this critical situation.”
Demonstrators are gathered outside the Nepal building during a protest in Kathmandu on Monday 8 September 2025. (Prabin Ranabhat/AFP via Getty images)
Minister of the Interior Ramesh Lekhak also resigned at a cabinet meeting at the end of Monday at the end of Monday.
The massive demonstrations and attack on parliament on Monday – which was called the protest of Gen Z – started as an opposition to the ban on social media platforms, but were fed by growing frustration and dissatisfaction against the political parties among the people who blame them for corruption, the AP reported.
Riot Police uses a water cannon on demonstrators outside in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Monday 8 September 2025. (AP/Niranjan Shrestha)
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“I am here to protest about the massive corruption in our country,” Bishnu Thapa Chetri, a student, told the news agency. “The country has become so bad that for us young people – there [are] No reason for us to stay back in the country. ”
The Associated Press has contributed to this report.
