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Kathmandu: Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) Senior Leader Balendra Shah was sworn in amid a special function at the President’s Office, Sheetal Niwas, on Friday. President Ramchandra Paudel administered the oath of office and secrecy.The swearing-in ceremony included the performance of shankhanaad (blowing of conch shells). In addition, swastishanti recitation was performed by 108 Batuks, while Buddhist monks conducted ashtamangal chanting.

Shah won the recently concluded March 5 parliamentary elections from the Jhapa constituency-5 under the first-past-the-post system, defeating a heavyweight KP Sharma Oli, Chairperson of the CPN-UML. The constituency was considered to be a stronghold of Oli.

A rapper and structural engineer, Shah shot to fame after he pulled off an upset in the 2022 local elections as an independent,........

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