Ex-rapper’s party sweeps election in first ballot since youth-led uprising

Balendra Shah’s party scored a sweeping victory in Nepal’s elections (Umesh Karki/AP)

A political party created just four years ago and led by an ex-rapper has swept Nepal’s parliamentary poll, results published by the electoral commission on Thursday showed.

The election – the country’s first since last year’s youth-led revolt – was won by the Rastriya Swatantra Party, or RSP, of rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah.