Nepal Prime Minister Shah cites social media as income source


FILE PHOTO: Nepal's newly sworn-in prime minister Balendra Shah with his wife Sabina Kafle and daughter Niloufer Shah attend a swearing-in ceremony in Kathmandu on March 27, 2026. - AFP

KATHMANDU: Prime Minister Balendra Shah and members of his Cabinet have made public their property details, revealing assets ranging from real estate and shareholdings to digital earnings and livestock.

According to disclosures released by the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers on Sunday (April 12), Shah holds Rs 14.6 million (US$98,185) in bank deposits.

He has listed digital content creation on platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and Spotify as his primary source of income.

Shah has four million followers on Facebook, 1.2 million on YouTube and half million followers on X.

The prime minister owns 1.2 bighas (a bigha is between 1/8 to 2/5 hectare) of land in Dhanusha and five annas (an anna is 32 square metres) in Kathmandu.

An additional nine bighas in Mahottari are held in the name of his father, Ram Narayan Shah. His wife, Sabina Kafle, has declared 190 tolas (one tola is 12 grams) of gold and silver as ancestral property. - The Kathmandu Post/ANN

 

 

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