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Four New Members Added To Deuba Cabinet
Four New Members Added To Deuba Cabinet
KTM Reporter
September 12, 2017
Kathmandu: Newly appointed three ministers have taken the oath of office from the president in presence of the vice-president and the prime minister at the residence of the president yesterday; they are Deepak Bohara for Ministry of Science and Technology, Sunil Bahadur Thapa for Ministry of Industry, and Bikram Pandey for Ministry of Forest and Soil conservation. One Minister of State has to take the oath of office from the prime minister. All of them are from the Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Democratic (RPP-D) of Pashupati Shumsher: the recently broken away from the main RPP headed by Kamal Thapa. Thus, Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has broken his own record of having the 50-member cabinet, making the current cabinet of 54 ministers, the news in “gorkhapatra” of today stated.
The expansion of the cabinet at the time when the election code of conduct is in effect has been disappointing, the Election Commission (EC) has said, as the cabinet expansion could adversely influence the holding of free, fair and impartial elections; so, the EC has urged the government to abstain from such anti-election code of conduct activities.
Speaking to journalists at the Biratnagar airport while in an election tour in Terai, Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba said that the government did not violate any election codes of conduct rather it complied with the election code of conduct, as the EC enforced, the news on therisingnepal.org.np stated today.
