Nepal’s youngest prime minister takes oath of office

Balendra Shah is just 35 (AP)

Nepal’s youngest prime minister has taken the oath of office after his party’s landslide election victory earlier this month, following a youth-led uprising that toppled the government in September.

Balendra Shah was appointed prime minister by the country’s president Ram Chandra Paudel after his Rastriya Swatantra Party won nearly two-thirds of the seats in the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of parliament, in the March 5 polls.

Mr Shah, the 35-year-old political outsider widely known as Balen, will lead 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.