Balendra Shah, a former rapper turned politician, has been sworn in as Nepal’s prime minister.
Shah, 35, is Nepal’s youngest prime minister in a decade and the first from the Madhesi people of the southern plains bordering India.
The former mayor of Kathmandu became prime minister after his Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) won 182 seats in the 275-member parliament in the March 5 election. It was the first vote since the Zoomer generation’s anti-corruption protests that left 76 people dead last September.
After taking the oath, Shah selected 14 members of his cabinet, fulfilling a campaign promise to create a small team to cut government spending.