SO, 73-year-old Nepalese Communist Party leader K. P. Sharma Oli has joined the fray as the latest casualty to the list compiled by self-proclaimed financial literacy advocate Ooi Beng Cheang (@luxentX) of heads of government who have stepped down in recent times.
On Sept 9, the Prime Minister of the Himalayan nation of 30 million people was ousted following in a week-long deadly Gen Z-driven anti-corruption protests.
One more down. Who’s next? https://t.co/d4rZJmNOYG pic.twitter.com/ADLNW0ve24
— Ooi Beng Cheang (@luxentX) September 8, 2025
Although there was no photo evidence, the current affairs observer noted that Oli had previously met his Malaysian counterpart Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to discuss bilateral cooperation in the areas of trade and investment on the sidelines of the recent Shanghai Cooperation Summit (SCO) 2025.
Therefore, both would have exchanged handshakes as in the case of their two other counterparts, namely Japan’s Shigeru Ishiba who resigned on Sept 7 after his party suffered a historic defeat in a summer election on Sept 7 and Thailand’s Paetongtarn Shinawatra who was removed from office on Aug 29.
In fact, the trio is joined by France’s François Bayrou who was ousted as French PM after losing confidence vote on Sept 8.
As his story telling unfolds, Ooi went on to reveal that “Thailand got quite a few since they have been changing PM’s quite often”, including Paetongtarn’s predecessor Srettha Thavisin who was removed from office by the Thai Constitutional Court on Aug 14 last year.
The list went on a little back to even include former French PM Justin Trudeau who ended his nine-year run citing “internal battles” on Jan 7 this year and former Dutch PM Dick Schoof who resigned on June 3 after far-right Geert Wilders threw his coalition government into crisis by quitting the coalition.
Elsewhere, Ooi also highlighted that even Indonesia’s respected finance minister Sri Mulyani whom PMX had previously met had on Sept 9 received an hour’s notice of sacking
As pointed out by a commenter, worst of the lot is perhaps former Thai premier and PMX’s informal ASEAN advisor Thaksin Shinawatra who now has to serve a one-year jail term.
In fact, it is this commenter who mooted the idea of the jinx effect from PMX’s handshake.
This is when social media influencer Roman Akramovich (@SyedAkramin) wondered what would be the fate of Indonesia’s current President Prabowo Subianto as he met PMX quite often.
One commenter cheekily suggested that this could be the reason why Chinese president Xi Jinping “kept a distance from PMX during the photo op that day” while another recounted that PMX had also previously shook hands with Xi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and more recently North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un.
As one commenter posed the jackpot question if US President Donald Trump had previously shook hands with PMX, another sarcastically remarked that “seems like everywhere he goes, he brings along misfortune to others 😅”.
At the end of the day, requests seem to trickle in from seemingly Palestinian sympathisers for PMX to jinx Trump and ally Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu with his “lethal handshake”. – Sept 13, 2025
