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Sujata for Foreign Ministry Portfolio
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
On June 2, 2009, President of the Nepali Congress (NC) Girija Prasad Koirala in the meeting held at his Maharajgunj residence with Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has told the Prime Minister that his daughter Sujata Koirala will lead the team of the NC to join the government, and Sujata will hold the portfolio of Foreign Minister. NC President Koirala has also said to the Prime Minister that the names of other six ministers to be will follow as soon as the Prime Minister will provide the NC President with the names of the ministerial portfolios.
The Central Working Committee of the NC has not been able to decide the issue of who will lead the team of NC to join the government and whom to select for ministerial positions; similarly, the parliamentary party of the NC also has not been able to decide the issue because of squabbling with each other over the ministerial portfolios. So, both the NC institutions have decided to empower the NC President to decide this matter believing NC President Koirala will be impartial in selecting the persons for ministerial portfolios. However, it has not happened rather NC President Koirala has appointed his own daughter Sujata to the leader of the team of NC members for joining the government.
Both the NC Vice-presidents: Sushil Koirala and Ram Chandra Poudel have been deadly against appointing Sujata Koirala to any ministerial position not to mention the leader of the NC team to join the government, as Sujata Koirala has lost the election for the Constituent Assembly-cum-parliament in April 2008. Sushil Koirala has even said that he will quit the NC if Sujata is appointed to a minister.
