Balendra Shah, leader of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), was sworn in as Nepal’s youngest prime minister during a special ceremony at the presidential residence, Sheetal Niwas, on Friday. President Ram Chandra Paudel administered the oath of office and secrecy to Shah, who becomes the country’s 47th prime minister.
Shah, a 35-year-old structural engineer and former rapper, won a decisive victory in the March 5 general election from the Jhapa-5 constituency, defeating former prime minister and CPN-UML chairman KP Sharma Oli. The seat had long been considered Oli’s stronghold. The election followed last year’s anti-corruption ‘Gen Z’ protests, in which 76 people were killed. Shah’s RSP secured 182 of the 275 parliamentary seats, paving his way to the premiership.
As the former mayor of Kathmandu, Shah is also the first Madhesi—an inhabitant of Nepal’s southern plains bordering India—to hold the country’s top political office, marking a generational and social milestone in Nepal’s leadership.
আমার দেশ অনলাইন প্রকাশ : ২৭ মার্চ ২০২৬, ১৮: ৪২ নেপালের কনিষ্ঠতম প্রধানমন্ত্রী হিসেবে শপথ নিয়েছেন রাষ্ট্রীয় স্বতন্ত্র পার্টির (আরএসপি) শীর্ষ নেতা বালেন্দ্র শাহ (বালেন)। শুক্রবার দেশটির রাষ্ট্রপতি ভবন ‘শীতল নিবাস’-এ আয়োজিত এক বিশেষ অনুষ্ঠানে প্রেসিডেন্
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