Kathmandu [Nepal], November 10 (ANI): Nepali Congress leader and former minister Minendra Rijal has credited Nepal's President for preventing a potential refugee crisis during the September Gen-Z protests, which he said could have pushed thousands across the open India-Nepal border.

Speaking to ANI, Rijal said, "We were at the verge of becoming a pariah state. Had we become that, then our neighbour would have been forced to inherit our problem. Thank God it didn't. Thank God that the president of Nepal had used his conscience, his long experience of being in politics came to use. He rescued the nation from grief that could have been of enormous proportion."

Rijal defended the actions of the president, who intervened amid growing unrest. "Was it justified? I think it was justified. Was it

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