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Kathmandu is seething. For the second day in a row, Nepal's youth-led uprising raged on, defying curbs on public gatherings and a heavy security clampdown. The turmoil culminated on Tuesday with Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli's resignation, hours after hundreds of demonstrators stormed his office shouting anti-government slogans.

"This protest is not only about the social media ban, but about the corruption happening under Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli's government. We are forced to take the route of violence to show dissent. Children were killed yesterday. They could have handled it peacefully, but instead they shot us," a protester told India Today TV. 

On Monday, violence reached a flashpoint. At least 20 people were killed and more than 300 injured after police opened fire. Four more were reported injured on Tuesday. The agitators torched Prime Minister Oli's residence in Balkot. They also attacked the house of former home minister Ramesh Lekhak, who resigned a day earlier.

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00:01This is India today exclusively on the ground in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, which is witnessing a uprising of youth, the Jansi and which is now turning violent.
00:13The crowd has set the traffic installations and the public property on fire.
00:20The police fired several rounds of gas shells from the other side, right here at the Gaushala road of Kathmandu and you could see even the buildings have sustained a certain amount of damage because of the protests that happened yesterday as well.
00:35On the ground, the protesters are now saying that this protest can no longer be peaceful.
00:41Ma'am, why do you guys think that this protest cannot continue to be a peaceful one?
00:46Actually, this protest is not only the social media, it's protest for anti-correspondence.
00:59The protest is not only the Cannes, it's protest is not only the star, but the protest is not only the inter-correspondence.
01:06This protest would be a protest, but not only the protest, but the protest will be the protest.
01:12The protest will be a protest in the protest.
01:15So, why do you know the situation?
01:21We are not sure how to go.
01:25You know, the situation is not the case.
01:29We are not the case.
01:31We are not the case.
01:33We are not the case.
01:35We are the case.
01:37But you can't do that when you are in front of the police,
01:43you are running a lot of rounds.
01:46Yes, that is a photo shoot.
01:49Yes.
01:50What is your name?
01:52Yes.
01:53What do you do?
01:55My brother.
01:56Have you come in production?
01:58Yes.
01:59Yes.
02:00Yes.
02:01Yes.
02:02Yes.
02:03So the crowd and the youth, specifically entrepreneurs, students, Gen Z crowd,
02:10everybody is saying that they are frustrated of the corruption in the government.
02:15This is an allegation that the youth believes that the political class in general has become corrupt in Nepal
02:22because of which the Gen Z crowd is on the streets right now and leading into situation of now violence happening in several parts.
02:32of Nepal.
02:33We are trying to get closer to this volatile situation on the ground right now at the Gauchala road where the property has been set on fire.
02:44The ambulances however are doing rounds continuously which also indicates that the injuries that could be happening on the streets of Kathmandu right now.
02:55The Strijs of Kathmandu as their men in Nepal – they are improving the effectiveness of a police force and the police force and the police force.
03:06We are looking at the//
03:09What do you want to change?
03:11How do you want to change?
03:13Do you want to change in the government or the state of the state of the world?
03:15The government is asking for fighting in the population.
03:17Or the people need to change in the population of Nepal.
03:18.
03:23.
03:28.
03:33.
03:37.
03:38.
03:47I am a governor.
03:49I am a governor.
03:51I am a teacher.
03:53I am a teacher.
03:55Taxes have been increased in Nepal?
03:57Yes, there are a lot of taxes.
03:59They say Hindi.
04:01What are the difficulties in this situation?
04:05In this situation, it is very difficult.
04:09The KPI government has no need.
04:13The government has no need.
04:15The government has no need.
04:19No.
04:21No.
04:23No.
04:25No.
04:27No.
04:29No.
04:31No.
04:33No.
04:35No.
04:39No.
04:41No.
04:43So the people of Nepal are seeking complete change in the political class in Nepal.
05:07They are saying that be it the opposition leaders such as Prachand or the ruling class such as K.P. Sharma, Oli,
05:14all of them have frustrated the youth of the country and they have no option but to come on the streets.
05:21And the kind of violence that's happening today after 19 people died yesterday in the police crackdown.
05:27And what we see is that many of them are actually wearing the flag of Nepal with a message,
05:34which means that you are wearing the flag of Nepal, what is the message that you are wearing the flag of Nepal?
05:39What message is that you are Indian?
05:41Yes, you are wearing the flag of Nepal. What kind of violence do you want to be in Nepal?
05:46We are going to go to JNZ for JNZ for JNZ.
05:52Okay, so before we end this report, look at the damage that's happening to public property in Nepal.
06:00And the protesters are saying that this is what has been forced upon them because it was only after yesterday's crackdown
06:10and death of 19 individuals and several injured that this route was taken by the protesters.
06:18And a few minutes back where I am reporting from the tear gas cells can be heard here.
06:25Multiple rounds of tear gas was actually fired by the armed police at this particular point.
06:32This is Amit Bhardwaj reporting for India today from Kathmandu.
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