DAMAK, Nepal - Everybody wants a photograph with Balendra Shah.The rapper-turned-politician - better known as Balen - dominating Nepal's electoral race was surrounded by supporters in the country's east last week, ahead of a March 5 election that could be pivotal in the mountainous nation locked between China and India."I am here to see Balen, even though I have a fever," a seven-year-old girl said, at her first sighting of the centrist Rastriya Swatantra Party's prime ministerial candidate.Next to her, a middle-aged woman admitted she left a heart check-up midway for a photo with Shah…READ FULL ARTICLE
