Kathmandu, Feb. 2 -- Prime Minister Sushila Karki has said that leaders of the September's Gen Z movement exerted strong pressure on her to appoint specific individuals as ministers while forming the interim government, forcing her to induct figures who had earlier resigned from ministerial posts to contest elections.

Addressing the National Assembly on Monday, Karki said the pressure came during the initial phase of government formation after she was appointed prime minister in September last year, when the country was facing a political vacuum and the interim administration had to be formed outside the traditional party structure.

"After I took the oath on September 12, 2025, the Cabinet was not formed immediately," Karki told the upp...