Those who brought Balen Shah to power are now pulling the chair, Gen-Z again took to the streets in Nepal

Gen-Z movement has started once again in Nepal, but this time the youth are protesting against Prime Minister Balen Shah. In the last three days, three youths attempted self-immolation by pouring petrol on themselves. Hundreds of people demonstrated on Sunday (12 July 2026) in Nepal against the government’s decision to remove landless slum dwellers without making arrangements for alternative rehabilitation of them.

Why are protests taking place against Balen Shah?

This demonstration, organized on the call of United National Landless Morcha, took place at Maitighar Mandla located in front of Singhdarbar Secretariat in Kathmandu. The protesters held placards with slogans like “Stop atrocities on the poor”, “Respect human rights”, “Stop illegal arrests” and “Give shelter to landless slum dwellers”. Meanwhile, a temporary accommodation center of the government in Kirtipur, Kathmandu was flooded due to the flood on Friday night. After this, with the help of security forces, the people living there were taken to safe places. About 150 landless slum dwellers were living there.

Police lathi charge on Gen-Z

Youth activists associated with Gen-Z reached there on Saturday (11 July 2026) to get information about the incident, but the police lathicharged them and arrested them. During this, a worker got injured on his face and was admitted to the local hospital. Nepali Congress President Gagan Kumar Thapa criticized the arrest of the workers, objected to the police action and demanded immediate release of the arrested people.

On the other hand, 26 people who were protesting against the alleged misbehavior of Gen-Z workers at the main gate of Morang District Police Office in Kosi province were also arrested by the police on July 12. Earlier, in April, the government had evicted landless people from slums and other temporary structures in various parts of the country, including the Kathmandu Valley. More than 15,000 people from 2,600 families were affected by this action.

Of these, 325 families were living in temporary accommodation centers set up in different parts of Kathmandu. On July 2, the government had directed the landless slum dwellers to vacate these temporary housing centers by July 6. However, as of Thursday (July 9, 2026), more than 60 families were living there.