Kathmandu, Feb. 2 -- UML leader Jitendra Narayan Dev has quit the party. In the statement on Monday, Dev said the party failed to understand the September Gen Z protests and instead framed them as a 'foreign conspiracy'.

"The Gen Z uprising was an outburst of public anger against long-standing misgovernance, corruption, plunder, unemployment and the large-scale migration of youths," Dev said. "Rather than understanding this reality or trying to reform itself, the party chose to portray it as a foreign plot, promote personality cults and run the party in an arbitrary and discriminatory manner. I therefore announce my resignation from the CPN-UML with effect from today."

Dev had joined the UML on July 1, 2023, after leaving the Nepali Con...