
Why Nepal's potential new leader is spitting straight fire at the ballot box
From Global Roaming with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald
Published 3/12/2026

From Global Roaming with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald
Published 3/12/2026
Last year's Gen Z protests in Nepal saw the Parliament building set ablaze, and Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli step down. In the first election since, it looks like the 35-year-old rapping former Mayor of Kathmandu could be next leader of the Himalayan nation. But with impacts of the war…