F inally, Nepal’s new Prime Minister has an X account . In her first post , Prime Minister Sushila Karki, presumably through her office, announced three new social media handles representing the Prime Minister’s Office on X, Facebook, and Instagram. These accounts were created on 05 October—almost four weeks after the elected government of KP Sharma Oli was toppled by Gen Z-led protests against nepotism, corruption, censorship, a social media ban, an internet blackout, and paralysing governance.

But something unusual about these new accounts has caught social media’s attention. The most common question is, why were new accounts created at all? Why couldn’t the Prime Minister’s Office recover the old, official ones?

The blame chatter

For a country where Gen Z youth peacefully united

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