The coup in Nepal: The President and the Prime Minister resigned, the country is in chaos

Today, on September 9, rioters in Nepal announced that the country had come under their leadership. The president and Prime Minister of the country resigned, according to the publication India Today.

"This country has come under our leadership. No damage has been done to state property... Our minimum position is to form a civilian government headed by a person whose candidacy will be acceptable to all, and hold new elections," the movement's statement cites the publication.

Earlier, Nepalese Prime Minister Sharma Oli and President Ram Chandra Paudel announced their resignations. Protesters set fire to the central office of the ruling Nepali Congress Party, the parliament building and the Supreme Court, broke into the complex of government buildings — the Singh Durbar Palace, and also entered the Hilton Hotel building in Kathmandu.

As EADaily reported, at the end of last week, the Nepalese authorities imposed a ban on the activities of a number of large social networks that did not register with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology on time, which caused mass protests to break out in the country. The riots involved mainly young people, they began in the capital of Nepal and spread to a number of major cities in the country.