cabinet expansion

As the five-party ruling coalition alliance has agreed on sharing Cabinet positions, they have been busy selecting ministerial candidates from respective parties. According to CPN (Unified Socialist) leader Beduram Bhusal, his party and the Janata Samajbadi Party-Nepal will share four ministerial portfolios each while the CPN-Maoist Centre will hold six portfolios. Out of 22 Cabinet […]

The government and its alliance parties have agreed to expand the Council of Ministers only after repealing the ordinance brought by Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba which allowed division of the opposition parties as the coalition parties that the ordinance will help split parties within the alliance. Deuba government, on August 16, had proposed an