Rastriya Swatantra Party, founded just four years ago, set to dominate new parliament with near two-thirds majority.

Nepal's election commission says a four-year-old party led by an ex-rapper has swept the first election since a youth-led revolt.

Balendra Shah, known as Balen, wins Nepal's parliamentary elections at age 35, defeating former prime minister K. P. Sharma Oli in a youth-led political upheaval.

The 35-year-old rapper-turned-politician is set to become the South Asian nation’s next Prime Minister, after Gen Z protests rocked the political establishment last year ...

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The large margins of victory in several constituencies, and the massive votes RSP candidates have secured – Balen Shah ...

Balendra Shah’s party won a landslide in the election that followed Nepal’s Gen Z revolution. His style is pugnacious.

Balendra Shah, Nepal’s prime minister and former rapper, rose to power after youth protests and a landslide election victory.

Once dismissed as a political novice, the former Kathmandu mayor is now on track to become Nepal’s next prime minister.

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A Nepali political party led by an ex-rapper is set for a landslide victory in the country’s first parliamentary election since Gen Z protests ousted the old leadership that ...