Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Monday inducted three more ministers—two from the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) and one from CPN (Samyukta)—into his Cabinet.

This is the first Cabinet expansion since Prime Minister Dahal assumed office along with five ministers on Thursday.

The newly inducted ministers—Dipak Bohara and Bikram Pandey of the RPP and Jaydev Joshi of the CPN (Samyukta)—were administered the oath of office and secrecy by President Bidhya Devi Bhandari at Sheetal Niwas on Monday itself.

Bohara, who is the general secretary of the RPP, was minister for labour and employment in the erstwhile KP Sharma Oli-led government.

RPP’s Pandey is also the party’s general secretary and a contractor. With the induction of three more ministers, Dahal’s Cabinet has now reached nine, with two deputy prime ministers, one each from the CPN (Maoist Centre) and the Nepali Congress.