Aug 24, Kathmandu - ​​​​​​​Tiktok star Ansh Verma has taken the initiative to release Nepali youth Bipin Joshi, who is being held by the militant group Hamas.

He started the campaign by trending globally from his Tiktok account, which has 1 million followers.

"Tiktok is the most widely used digital medium at the moment. I have used this platform for the release of Bipin", he said, "All I can do is take an initiative".

He has requested that at least one Tiktok video be made about Bipin every day. He said that a lot of Tiktok videos are being made in accordance with that request. "I am getting a lot of feedback from home and abroad,’ he said, ‘Hundreds of videos are being made every day".

“I am making the video myself and will continue to make it today,” he said, “I have also been making many requests. Of course, why shouldn’t the news reach the relevant places?”

The Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister are saying in their social media posts that the government is leaving no stone unturned to secure Bipin’s release. The Israeli government had extradited Bipin’s mother and sister last week.

“I am making the video myself and will continue to make it today,” he said, “I have also been making many requests. Of course, why shouldn’t the news reach the relevant places?”

The Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister are saying in their social media posts that the government is leaving no stone unturned to secure Bipin’s release. The Israeli government had extradited Bipin’s mother and sister last week.

Who is Bipin Joshi?

Joshi from Kanchanpur is an agricultural science student at Sudurpaschim University.

He had gone there with other students as part of the ‘Learn and Earn’ program for agricultural science students as per an agreement between the governments of Israel and Nepal. He was working at an agricultural farm near the Gaza border.

Of the 17 Nepali students working at the agricultural firm, 10 were killed in the Hamas attack. Four others were injured, and Joshi was unaccounted for. The other two were unharmed.

The students who worked at the same firm as Joshi and were rescued and returned to Nepal said they had saved themselves by throwing a grenade that was fired by Hamas. But they later said that they had been taken away by Hamas fighters.