Nepal: Sushila Karki to take oath as interim PM, says report; first woman to hold the post
Posted on: Sep 12, 2025 19:20 IST | Posted by: Hindustantimes
Sushila Karki, 73, testament occupy swearing as lag ground minister of Nepal, a report by news agency ANI said on Friday evening. She will guide the country to its next elections, which she had said she would want to to conduct in six months to a year.
The first woman to have served as chief justice of the Nepal Supreme Court, Sushila Karki will also be the first woman to the highest executive post in the Himalayan country.
She was reported to be the top choice of the 'Gen Z' protest group to lead the country on Wednesday, but there were fresh negotiations thereafter. The names also discussed were those of Kathmandu mayor Balendra Shah ‘Balen’, a 35-year-old rapper-turned-politician; and Kulman Ghising, 54, a former head of the Nepal Electricity Authority famous for his role in ending power cuts.
Karki succeeds KP Sharma Oli, who resigned on Tuesday after a youth-led siege that overthrew not just the ruling dispensation but most of the older, entrenched order of politicians.
Kathmandu and other areas were now peaceful after widespread protests triggered by a ban on social media sites widened, fueled by long-held public frustrations with corruption.
The violence resulted in the deaths of more than 30 people and injuries to over 1,000.
Sushila Karki served as Nepal's first female chief justice from July 2016 to June 2017. She was known for a zero-tolerance policy against corruption — something that shot her into global spotlight when the then government tried to remove her.
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