{"id":76647,"date":"2026-03-08T22:47:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T13:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/08\/ex-rapper-balendra-shah-nepal-pm-landslide-election-win"},"modified":"2026-03-08T22:47:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T13:47:22","slug":"ex-rapper-balendra-shah-set-to-be-nepal-pm-after-partys-landslide-election-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76647","title":{"rendered":"Ex-rapper Balendra Shah set to be Nepal PM after party\u2019s landslide election win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shah\u2019s Rastriya Swatantra party secures thumping victory in first poll since gen Z protests that toppled government <\/p>\n<p>Balendra Shah, the rapper turned politician and popular figurehead of a gen Z revolution, looks set to become Nepal\u2019s next prime minister after his party won by an unprecedented margin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/03\/nepal-gen-z-election-popular-former-rapper-balen\">Shah, known widely as Balen<\/a>, and his Rastriya Swatantra party (RSP) secured a rare landslide victory in the first election since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/dec\/30\/gen-z-protests-corruption-five-activists-nepal-madagascar-togo-kenya-morocco-protesters\">youth-led protests<\/a> during which dozens were killed and the former government was toppled.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/08\/ex-rapper-balendra-shah-nepal-pm-landslide-election-win\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shah\u2019s Rastriya Swatantra party secures thumping victory in first poll since gen Z protests that toppled government Balendra Shah, the rapper turned politician and popular figurehead of a gen Z revolution, looks set to become Nepal\u2019s next prime ministe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4774,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[241,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nepal","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4774"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76648,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76647\/revisions\/76648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}