Kathmandu, March 7 RSP leader and rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah 'Balen' defeated four-time prime minister K P Sharma Oli by a significant margin of about 50,000 votes in Nepal's Jhapa-5 constituency, the Election Commission said here.
The leader of the Rashtriya Swatantrata Party (RSP) and former Kathmandu Mayor, popularly known as Balen, is his party's candidate for the prime ministerial position.
As of 6 pm, the RSP had won 62 seats out of the 78 for which results have been announced and is leading in 60 seats.
Balen, 35, secured 68,348 votes against 18,734 votes for 74-year-old Oli, the Election Commission (EC) said.
The Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) -- CPN-UML – had nominated Oli as the party's candidate for the prime ministerial position.
Nepal held general elections on Thursday, the first since the violent Gen Z protests last year, which demanded a generational change in politics and a corruption-free regime in the Himalayan nation.
