The biggest news of this time is coming from the neighboring country Nepal. Running the biggest ever ‘hunter’ against corruption, Prime Minister Balen Shah’s government has launched an investigation which has created a stir in the political circles of the entire country. The government has constituted a 5-member judicial panel, which will open the raw ledger of the assets of veterans who held public positions from 2006 to 2025-26.

7 former PMs and former King Gyanendra Shah under investigation

The heat of this investigation has reached the most influential families of Nepal. All 7 former Prime Ministers since 2005-06 have been included in the scope of investigation. These include veteran names like Sushil Koirala, Pushp Kamal Dahal (Prachanda), Madhav Kumar Nepal, Jhalnath Khanal, Baburam Bhattarai, KP Sharma Oli and Sher Bahadur Deuba. Not only this, the assets of former King Gyanendra Shah and three former and current Presidents—Ram Baran Yadav, Vidya Devi Bhandari and current President Ramchandra Paudel—will also be closely scrutinized. This is the first time that the government, the opposition and the former monarchy are all together under the radar of investigation.

Even the dead leaders and ministers of his own party were not spared.

This step of the Balen Shah government is also shocking because this investigation is not limited to living leaders only. The assets of leaders who are no more (like Girija Prasad Koirala), their families and political heirs will also be investigated. Apart from this, Shah has also kept his own party ‘Rashtriya Swatantra Party’ chief Ravi Lamichhane and current ministers Birajbhakt Shrestha and Shishir Khanal under investigation. The message of the government is clear – no one, our own or our own, will be against corruption.

Why was there a need for this grand investigation?

After the mass movement of 2006, monarchy ended in Nepal and democracy came. But since then the country has been witness to many big scams. whether it’s 2023 Bhutanese refugee scam Be it, in which lakhs of rupees were collected in the name of sending common citizens abroad by making them fake refugees, or in the case of Kathmandu. Lalita Niwas land scam. Nepal Airlines wide body aircraft deal And cases like the manipulation of relief funds during the 2015 earthquake have broken public trust. Balen Shah has won a huge majority on the basis of anti-corruption movement of youth and now he is fulfilling his election promise.

Retired judge will investigate the ‘fortress’ of corruption

The command of this historic investigation panel has been handed over to retired Supreme Court judge Rajendra Kumar Bhandari. After the big victory on March 5, the Cabinet had decided to create this mechanism on March 27, which has now been implemented. The government claims that the investigation will be completely impartial and based on evidence. When this panel submits its report in the coming days, it is considered certain that many big faces in Nepalese politics will be unmasked.