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PM Deuba expands Cabinet inducting 19 new ministers

More than a month and a half after he was appointed to the top executive post, Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba on Wednesday expanded his Cabinet by inducting 19 new ministers. PM Deuba expands Cabinet inducting 19 new ministers

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Published at : July 26, 2017

Updated at : July 27, 2017 08:33

Kathmandu

More than a month and a half after he was appointed to the top executive post, Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba on Wednesday expanded his Cabinet by inducting 19 new ministers.

PM Deuba today appointed ten ministers from his party Nepali Congress, six from CPN (Maoist Centre), two from Madhesi Janadhikar Forum-Loktantrik and two from CPN (United).

President Bidya Devi Bhandari administered the oath of office and secrecy to the newly appointed ministers at Sheetal Niwas this afternoon.

Though PM Deuba wanted to expand his Cabinet on Tuesday, failure to address intra-party feud over ministerial berths led to cancellation of the plan.

Nepali Congress
Names	Portfolios
Bhimsen Das	Minister for Defence
Bir Bahadur Balayar	Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport
Yagya Bahadur Thapa	Minister for Law
Min Bishwokarma	Minister for Commerce
Mohan Basnet	Minister for Information and Communications
Sanjay Gautam	Minister for Irrigation
Ram Krishna Yadav	Minister for Agriculture
Rajan KC	Minister for Youth and Sports
Ambika Basnet	Minister for Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation
Mahendra Yadav	Minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation

CPN (Maoist Centre)
Names	Portfolios
Girirajmani Pokharel	Minister for Health
Mahendra Bahadur Shahi	Minister for Energy
Tek Bahadur Basent	Minister for General Administration
Shiva Kumar Mandal	Minister for Supplies
Santa Kumar Tharu Chaudhary	Minister for Livestock Development
Asha Khanal Koirala	Minister for Women, Children and Social Welfare

Madhesi Janadhikari Forum-Loktantrik
Jitendra Narayan Dev	Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation
Gopal Dahit	Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transportation

CPN (United)
Mithila Chaudhary	Minister for Population and Environment

Deuba had formed a small Cabinet by inducting seven ministers including three Deputy Prime Ministers (DPMs) after being elected as 40^th Prime Minister of Nepal on June 6.

From Nepali Congress, Gopal Man Shrestha was appointed as the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Education, Gyanendra Bahadur Karki and Farmullah Mansoor were appointed as Minister for Finance and Minister for Labour and Employment respectively.

Likewise, Krishna Bahadur Mahara of CPN (Maoist Centre) was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Similarly, CPN (MC) leader Janardan Sharma was appointed as Minister for Home Affairs and Prabhu Sah was appointed as minister without portfolio.