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Prime Minister Bhattarai Managing Hostility
By KTM Metro Reporter
March 24, 2012: Prime Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai on Friday has interchanged the portfolios of the two state ministers giving the portfolio of Tourism and Civil Aviation to State Minister for Land Reform Jwala Kumari Sah, and the portfolio of Land Reform to State Minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation Dilip Maharjan. Both of them belong to the prime minister’s party: UCPN-Maoist, ‘The Rising Nepal’ of today writes. The prime minister has to do so to avoid the friction between the minister and the state minister. State Minister Sah had charged Land Reforms Minister Bhim Prasad Gautam with transferring employees taking bribes and using land mafias.
Prime Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai has administered the oath of office and secrecy to Malbir Singh Thapa Chairman of Rastriya Janamukti Party as the Minister for Labor and Transport Management in the presence of President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav yesterday after firing Sarita Giri for not following the rules and regulations in transferring Director General of Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE) Purna Chandra Bhattarai.
At the same time, Prime Minister Bhattarai talked to State Minister for Health and Population Saroj Kumar Yadav and staffs of the Bir Hospital about an incident occurred at the Bir Hospital on the night of Sunday, March 18, 2012 in which the minister had allegedly misbehaved with the staffs. An investigation into this case found that both the minister and staff were responsible for the incident. So, Prime Minister Bhattarai requested both parties for closing down the case, ‘The Rising Nepal’ of today writes.
