Gagan Thapa hits back at Balen: Many came to scare me, I never learned to be scared

Kathmandu, 2 November 2026. Nepali Congress president Gagan Kumar Thapa has responded sharply to Prime Minister Balendra Shah on Monday evening, saying many people have tried to scare him but he has never learned to be scared.

Thapa posted the short message on social media at exactly 6:00 pm on Monday. In it, he said many had come to scare him, but he had not developed the habit of being scared.

Thapa was responding to a warning posted earlier by Prime Minister Shah on social media. In substance, Shah said that after the right time comes, everyone's bad time comes, and one or two people should not dream of escaping.

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The sequence is therefore clear. The prime minister issued his warning first, and the Congress president answered later on Monday evening, at exactly 6:00 pm, with a message that he would not be scared.

The exchange is taking place in the context of the Congress officiality dispute and discussion of a Rs 180 million transaction. No further detail about that dispute or transaction is part of this report.

The exchange is being watched with interest in political circles and widely discussed on social media. The speed with which Thapa answered, and the direct wording of his post, have helped make it a talking point.

For now, the public exchange stands as a brief but sharp social media exchange between the prime minister and the Congress president, with Thapa's Monday evening post as his answer to the warning.

Readers following the exchange on social media are also seeing the two posts shared together, as Thapa's reply is read in the light of the warning that came before it.