Overview
- A seven-point agreement reached after overnight talks installs the 35-year-old as RSP parliamentary leader and the alliance’s prime ministerial face.
- Shah’s team will merge into the RSP and contest the March 5, 2026 elections on the party’s Bell symbol, with the name, flag and symbol unchanged for a party that was the fourth-largest in the dissolved House of Representatives.
- Rabi Lamichhane will remain RSP chair, while the partners pledged to advance demands from Gen Z protesters, including support for those injured during the movement.
- The deal is widely viewed as consolidating youth-driven forces that arose from the September unrest, which contributed to the fall of the K. P. Sharma Oli government.
- Observers expect a surge of Gen Z supporters toward the RSP, while Kulman Ghising’s Ujyalo Nepal Party remains undecided after talks with Shah.