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35-year-old Balendra Shah alias Balen, the icon of the Gen-Z movement, created history on Friday (March 27, 2026) by taking oath as the youngest democratically elected Prime Minister of Nepal. Rapper, engineer and then politician Balendra Shah has become a symbol of generational change in Nepal’s politics.
Balen is also the first person from the Madhes region to become the 47th Prime Minister of the country. Balen defeated K.P. in Jhapa-5 constituency of Nepal. Sharma defeated Oli by a huge margin of about 50,000 votes. Oli has been the Prime Minister of the country four times. Balen had won the election for the post of Mayor of Kathmandu in the year 2022 as an independent candidate.
The Oli-led coalition government fell in September last year following nationwide violent protests against the ban on social media and corruption. After this, the youth of Gen-Z considered Balen as a popular candidate to lead the interim government, but Balen refused to lead the interim government at that time and said that he would prefer to lead the government for a full term by contesting the parliamentary elections.
Gen-Z is the generation born between 1997 and 2012. In January, Balen joined the newly formed Rashtriya Swatantra Party (RCP) led by Ravi Lamichhane and was soon declared the party’s prime ministerial candidate. As mayor of Kathmandu, Balen is credited with extensive reforms and beautification of the metropolis. Born in the country’s capital Kathmandu, Balen is the youngest son of Ayurveda doctor Ram Narayan Shah and housewife Dhruvdevi Shah. He was interested in music and poetry since childhood and during his education he turned to rap music.
After completing his civil engineering degree from Kathmandu, Balen pursued a master’s degree in engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Karnataka. Balen married Sabina Kafle in 2018 and the couple has a daughter. Balen has more than 10 lakh ‘subscribers’ on his official YouTube channel.
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