Nepal’s youngest prime minister took the oath of office Friday after his party won a landslide victory in elections earlier this month and following a youth-led uprising that toppled the government in September, reports AP.

Balendra Shah was appointed the prime minister by President Ram Chandra Paudel Friday 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.

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.

Religion and astrology play a big role in Nepal, which is more than 80 percent Hindu and where people begin new work, get married and hold religious rituals according to auspicious times.

Shah was born in the capital Katmandu but his family comes from the Hindu-dominated Terai region of Nepal, near the border with India.

He will take the oath of office as prime minister of Nepal before President Ramchandra Paudel at an elaborate ceremony with Hindu rituals, including “shankhnaad” or blowing of conches, and religious chanting by Hindu priests and Buddhist lamas.

Shah plans to take the oath along with his newly chosen Cabinet in the presence of officials and diplomats.

Balendra Shah, a structural engineer who rose to fame as a rap artist before becoming Katmandu’s mayor, leads the Rastriya Swatantra Party, which won about two-thirds of the 275 seats in the bicameral Parliament’s powerful lower House of Representatives.

Shah emerged as a prominent voice during the bloody youth-led uprising in September that toppled the government in the nation of 30 million people, a wave of unrest that left dozens dead.

Although he didn’t directly participate in the protests, Shah publicly expressed support for the largely Generation Z demonstrators who led the movement.