- Hami Nepal used the Discord application to mobilize the demonstrations.
- Sudan Gurung and the team offer closet changes.
- Protests against corruption resulted in 72 deaths.
Kathmandu: A former DJ and its Nepalese non -profit obscure used a popular social media application with video players to provoke massive demonstrations and become improbable power brokers in the installation of the country’s new provisional leadership.
Sudan Gurung, the founder of Hami Nepal (We Are Nepal), 36, used the Discord Messaging and Instagram application to mobilize massive demonstrations that forced Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli to resign, in the deadliest political crisis to strike the Himalayas for decades, said a dozen people involved in demonstrations.
The group used VPNs to access prohibited platforms and issued action for action that have reached tens of thousands of young people, they added. Oli representatives could not be contacted for comments.
“I was invited to join a group on Discord where there were about 400 members. He asked us to join the demonstration march a few kilometers from the Parliament,” said 18 -year -old student Karan Kulung Rai, who is not part of the group, said Reuters.
Hami Nepal’s first social media publications on Discord became so influential that they were referenced on national television.
While the demonstrations became violent, the group also identified messages which it called “false news” and shared the telephone numbers of the hospital.
The members of Hami Nepal, who asked not to be identified because they had used online proxy names for security reasons, said that Gurung and other group leaders had since become central to high challenges decisions, including the appointment of the new provisional management until the elections take place on March 5.
They have already convinced the president and chief of the country’s army to appoint the former Sushila Karki chief, known for his difficult position against corruption, as the first woman Prime Minister of Nepal as a temporary basis, said three members of the group.
“I will make sure that power lies in the people and translate each corrupt politician in justice,” said Gurung during his first press conference since the demonstration on Thursday.
Sunday, Gurung and his team were in meetings to decide the key positions of the cabinet and proposed that certain representatives of the government appointed by the previous administration be deleted, said members of Hami Nepal.
“Meetings continue between Karki and the members of the group. We will soon end the cabinet,” said one of the members. Gurung and Karki did not immediately answer the questions sent to their mobile phone.
The “process is carefully carried out, so that it consists of young qualified and capable,” said Hami Nepal on Instagram.
From DJ to revolutionary
Monday’s protest by young adults loosely classified as a “Gen Z” movement, because most of the participants were in their twenties, became fatal in a few hours and quickly lowered the government.
The demonstrations aimed at the corruption of the perceived government and took off following a ban on several social media platforms – a directive which was reversed. The demonstrators clashed with authorities in the streets, killing at least 72 and more than 1,300 injured.
Gurung, who is older than the age group of Gen Z, and his team has promised not to occupy cabinet posts but wants to be part of future decision -making.
“We do not want to be politicians. Sudan Gurung only helped the group” Gen Z “and we are only the voice of the nation and not interest in occupying management positions,” said Ronesh Pradhan, a 26 -year -old volunteer for the group.
Gurung, who was DJ before founding Hami Nepal, organized civic relief when the worst earthquake in the history of Nepal killed more than 9,000 people in 2015 and during the Pandemic Covid-19.
The members of the team leading the Instagram account, whose subscribers inflated to more than 160,000, and the discord positions alongside Gurung include the owner of the 24 -year -old cafe, Ojaswi Raj Thapa, and the graduate of the Rehan Raj Dangal law.
Thapa, who quickly emerged as head of the vocal protest movement, said Reuters In an interview that the judiciary was not independent and ensuring that his freedom was a key priority once the interim government has been put in place.
“We may need changes to the Constitution, but we don’t want to dissolve the Constitution,” he said on Thursday.
