{"id":6147,"date":"2026-03-27T14:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=6147"},"modified":"2026-03-27T14:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:02:18","slug":"balendra-shah-has-taken-the-oath-as-prime-minister-of-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=6147","title":{"rendered":"Balendra Shah has taken the oath as Prime Minister of Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Kathmandu. Balendra Shah has taken the oath as Nepal&#8217;s prime minister after sweeping the first election since deadly anti-corruption protests toppled the government last year. The 35-year-old was elected as the leader of the parliamentary party of the Rastriya Swatantra Party on Thursday, paving his way to become Nepal&#8217;s youngest elected prime minister.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">&#8220;I, Balendra Shah, in the name of the country and people, pledge that I will be loyal to the constitution and fulfil my duty as the prime minister,&#8221; Shah said, dressed in skin-tight trousers, a matching jacket, his signature black Nepali cloth cap and sunglasses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">President Ram Chandra Poudel administered the oath of office after a ceremony involving scores of chanting Hindu priests and red-robed Buddhist monks. Shah is the first Madhesi &#8212; a person of the southern plains bordering India &#8212; in decades to lead the Himalayan nation that is wedged between Asian giants India and China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Nepal chose former Kathmandu mayor and fresher Shah and his RSP to form the next government, decimating the traditional parties in the first general elections since last year&#8217;s violent Gen Z protests that sought generational change and a corruption-free regime. His RSP won 182 seats in the 275-member parliament in the March 5 election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">The Nepali Congress party, the country&#8217;s oldest party, became a distant second group in parliament with just 38 seats. The Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) of Oli, who was forced to resign after the Gen Z unrest, controls 25 members.<\/span><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_260327_144533_000.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Balendra Shah has taken the oath as Nepal&#8217;s prime minister after sweeping the first election since deadly anti-corruption protests toppled the government last year. The 35-year-old was elected as the leader of the parliamentary party of the Rastriya Swatantra Party on Thursday, paving his way to become Nepal&#8217;s youngest elected prime minister. &#8220;I, Balendra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-highlights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FB_IMG_1774601878285.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6149,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147\/revisions\/6149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}