Kathmandu, Sept. 24 -- In the wake of the historic Gen Z movement against corruption and the dominance of elderly politicians in Nepali politics, the chairman of the Nepal Socialist Party (Naya Shakti), Baburam Bhattarai, resigned from his position on Wednesday.

The 71-year-old submitted his resignation during a special plenum of the party's central committee in Kathmandu.

Manushi Yami Bhattarai, a member of the party's special convention committee and Bhattarai' daughter, confirmed to the Post that the chairman has stepped down. The fringe party had no representation in the recently dissolved Parliament.

"Chairman Bhattarai has not resigned in the conventional sense. He has rather relinquished his position. The party has therefore dec...