Nepal’s youngest prime minister takes the oath of office

Nepal’s youngest prime minister has taken the oath of office Friday after his party won a landslide victory in elections earlier this month. It also comes months after a youth-led uprising that toppled the government. Balendra Shah was appointed prime minister by President Ram Chandra Paudel Friday after his Rastriya Swatantra Party won nearly two-thirds of the seats in the House of Representatives in the March 5 polls. Shah now leads a government tasked with navigating deep public frustration with Nepal’s established parties, who were widely blamed by voters for corruption and chronic political instability.