{"id":321509,"date":"2026-02-27T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/rapper-turned-politician-dominating-race-to-be-nepal-prime-minister\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T18:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:00:23","slug":"rapper-turned-politician-dominating-race-to-be-nepal-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/rapper-turned-politician-dominating-race-to-be-nepal-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper turned politician dominating race to be Nepal Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/zMXfm-qmIco\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Rapper turned politician dominating race to be Nepal Prime Minister\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zMXfm-qmIco\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Could this rapper-turned-politician become Nepal&#8217;s new Prime Minister?<\/p>\n<p>Last September, a historic youth-led uprising in which over 70 people were killed, forced then-Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli to resign.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Balendra Shah, known as Balen, is dominating the race ahead of the election in March.<\/p>\n<p>Balen put down the mic to become mayor of the capital Kathmandu in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>His music was traditionally critical of the establishment.<\/p>\n<p>But Balen has faced criticism from Human Rights Watch over allegations he used the police force to aggressively seize property from street vendors.<\/p>\n<p>He says he cleared the streets of illegal vendors to &#8216;clean&#8217; the city.<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could this rapper-turned-politician become Nepal&#8217;s new Prime Minister? Last September, a historic youth-led uprising in which over 70 people were killed, forced then-Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli to resign. Now, Balendra Shah, known as Balen, is dominating the race ahead of the election in March. Balen put down the mic to become mayor of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":321510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128813],"tags":[128880,149603,128910],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-321509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-channel-4-news","tag-could","tag-rapperturnedpolitician","tag-this"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rapper turned politician dominating race to be Nepal Prime Minister | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Rapper turned politician dominating race to be Nepal Prime Minister for free, here on News ISC. 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