BP Koirala, who was in exile in India, returned to Nepal in 2033 BS with a policy of reconciliation. At that time, Surya Bahadur Thapa had publicly demanded that BP be hanged.

Thapa, who had become Prime Minister three times during the Panchayat period and was accused of gross misuse of state power to defeat the multi-party system in the 2036 referendum, became Prime Minister again eight years after the restoration of the multi-party system. Thapa was made Prime Minister with the support of the Congress after removing Lokendra Bahadur Chand. Less than a decade after the Panchayat was overthrown and democracy was restored by struggling with the Panchayats, Chand became Prime Minister with the support of the UML and Thapa with the support of the Congress.

Chand became Prime Minister in 2053 Falgun with the support of the UML, and he led the government for 7 months, facing many attempts to change power. Chand also became the Prime Minister through an unusual maneuver. After the no-confidence motion was withdrawn by the main opposition Congress and Chand's own party, the King appointed Rastriya Prajatantra Party Chairman Thapa as the Prime Minister on Asoj 20, 2054. As part of the game of preventing the UML from allowing the Congress to remain in power and the Congress from allowing the UML to remain in power, the two former Panchas got the opportunity to become the Prime Minister in turn. At that time, it was often commented that both parties, who had struggled for multi-party politics, had been favoring the Panchas. Since the number of MPs is the basis for forming and toppling a government in a parliamentary system, the RPP became the decisive force in the parliament after the 2051 mid-term elections. The government was very unstable due to the RPP, which had 20 seats in the parliament. This greatly increased political instability in the country. In particular, the apolitical activities and distorted character of MPs, ministers and top party leaders raised the question of whether the multi-party parliamentary system was bad in general.

This is how Thapa became Prime Minister

The Congress, with the support of the RPP, had ousted the UML's nine-month-old Prime Minister Manmohan Adhikari in 2009 Bhadra. After removing Manmohan, the leader of the Congress parliamentary party, Sher Bahadur Deuba, became the Prime Minister. After he became the Prime Minister, the UML had been continuously trying to oust him. That is why the UML had moved a no-confidence motion twice during Deuba's 18-month tenure.

The most unparliamentary and apolitical activities were seen during Deuba's tenure to maintain power. After the second no-confidence motion failed, the government collapsed after two Congress MPs were absent from the motion that Deuba himself had put forward to seek a vote of confidence from the parliament. Then in 2009, Chand became Prime Minister with the support of UML. Again, the Congress supported Thapa of the RPP to remove Chand. Chand had made every effort to save the government under his leadership. But after the RPP MPs in Chand's cabinet sided with Thapa, the no-confidence motion against him was passed.

Thapa became Prime Minister with the support of the Congress. Out of the 19 RPP MPs, excluding the Deputy Speaker, only Chand and Padmasundar Lawati had not signed the no-confidence motion in Thapa. After his own party chairman and cabinet members signed the no-confidence motion, Chand had likened them to rats that make holes in the boat they were on. Chand had said in the meeting of the House of Representatives on October 18, 2001, targeting the Congress and Thapa, ‘Will you become the greatest democrat just for supporting BP Koirala, who returned home after the Emergency began in India? Will the person who spoke out against BP be a democrat?’

Chand reminded the Congress of a historical event by linking it to the incident of Thapa demanding the hanging of BP. Chand made this statement after the Congress moved a no-confidence motion in Parliament on the basis of the argument that democracy would be saved through Thapa rather than Chand. Less than three years after the 2001 mid-term elections, four prime ministers had become prime ministers: Manmohan Adhikari, Sher Bahadur Deuba, Lokendra Bahadur Chand, and Surya Bahadur Thapa.

Kantipur had published a news story based on the acrimony between UML and Congress, the power struggle within the RPP, and Thapa becoming Prime Minister after removing Chand under the headline ‘Thapa appointed Prime Minister, cabinet formed today’. On the same day, journalist Hari Bahadur Thapa had published a news story based on Thapa’s biography under the headline ‘This is how Thapa nailed the nail after 14 years’. The feature news story mentioned Thapa’s rise as a clever rascal in politics, his role in the Panchayat, and his relationship with the court.