{"id":76842,"date":"2026-03-27T02:43:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/26\/nepal-pm-balendra-shah-rap"},"modified":"2026-03-27T02:43:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:43:52","slug":"nepals-pm-to-be-uses-rap-to-call-for-unity-in-first-post-election-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76842","title":{"rendered":"Nepal\u2019s PM-to-be uses rap to call for unity in first post-election message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Balendra Shah, 35, is a symbol of change in country whose government was toppled last year in youth-led uprising<\/p>\n<p>Nepal\u2019s rapper turned politician Balendra Shah, who is about to be sworn in as prime minister, has issued his first post-election message in the form of a rap urging unity.<\/p>\n<p>Hours before the release he swore an oath as a newly elected lawmaker, and he is due to become the Himalayan republic\u2019s new prime minister on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/26\/nepal-pm-balendra-shah-rap\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balendra Shah, 35, is a symbol of change in country whose government was toppled last year in youth-led uprisingNepal\u2019s rapper turned politician Balendra Shah, who is about to be sworn in as prime minister, has issued his first post-election message in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"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-76842","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\/76842","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\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76843,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76842\/revisions\/76843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}