What will Balen Shah as PM mean to Nepal’s roti-beti ties with India?

Months after GenZ protests overthrew the government of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, Kathmandu Mayor Balendra Shah fired off a Facebook post that stunned many. It was November 1, 2025. In the post laced with F-bombs, Shah lashed out at Nepal’s major political parties. He took aim at India, China and the United States. “You guys all combined can do nothing,” Shah wrote. The post stayed up for barely 30 minutes, but by then it had racked up tens of thousands of reactions and screenshots that went viral. The rant was combative, impulsive and fiercely anti-establishment. It summed up the…