Kathmandu, March 7 -- Months after Gen Z youth stormed the streets of Nepal, effectively toppling the KP Oli-led government, the country held its general elections on Thursday, March 5. And on Saturday, March 7, Rashtriya Swatantra Party's Balendra Shah defeated four-time PM Oli by a huge margin and was set to form the next government in Nepal, decimating traditional political parties in the first general elections after the violent protests of 2025

Balen, 35, secured 68,348 votes against 74-year-old Oli's 18,734, the Election Commission (EC) said.

Before he entered the political arena, Shah had a strong reputation in the hip-hop scene for his socially aware rap songs.

A rapper before prime minister

Shah first got into Nepal's hip-hop...