{"id":16043,"date":"2026-03-27T21:11:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T15:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/?p=16043"},"modified":"2026-03-27T21:11:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T15:26:47","slug":"balen-shah-takes-oath-as-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/balen-shah-takes-oath-as-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Balen Shah takes oath as Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Balen Shah has taken the oath of office as Prime Minister.\u00a0President Ram Chandra Poudel administered the oath of office and secrecy to Balen as the country&#8217;s 43rd Prime Minister at a program organized at Sheetal Niwas.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the oath-taking, Shankhanath was chanted from 7 conches, Swasti Shanti was recited from 108 Batuks, and Shubh Mangal was recited from 108 Buddhist monks.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The swearing-in ceremony was attended by Vice President Ram Sahay Prasad Yadav, outgoing Prime Minister Sushila Karki, and other dignitaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier today, President Ram Chandra Poudel appointed Balen, a member of the House of Representatives, as the Prime Minister of Nepal in accordance with Article 76 (1) of the Constitution of Nepal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balen Shah has taken the oath of office as Prime Minister.\u00a0President Ram Chandra Poudel administered the oath of office and secrecy to Balen as the country&#8217;s 43rd Prime Minister at a program organized at Sheetal Niwas.\u00a0 Before the oath-taking, Shankhanath was chanted from 7 conches, Swasti Shanti was recited from 108 Batuks, and Shubh Mangal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":16044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[439],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16045,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16043\/revisions\/16045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16043"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=16043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}