Four ministers from the Congress, four each from the Maoists and Jaspas, five from the CPN (S), and one independent were added to the cabinet.
Kathmandu. Two months and 21 days after the formation of the government led by Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, the cabinet has been completed. On Friday, President Bidyadevi Bhandari, on the recommendation of the government, restructured the Council of Ministers in accordance with Article 76, Clause 9 and Article 78, Clause 1 of the Constitution.
According to the President’s Office, Shital Niwas, the restructured cabinet has 21 ministers besides the prime minister and three ministers of state. The second and third priorities of the government are Bal Krishna Khanna and Gyanendra Bahadur Karki. The Congress has seven ministers and one minister of state.
In the government, the CPN-Maoist Center and the CPN (Unified Socialist Party) have been given 5-5 ministers and 1-1 Minister of State. The Janata Samajwadi Party has been given four cabinet ministers. Former Congress leader Gajendra Bahadur Hamal, who is not a member of any house of the federal parliament in the cabinet, has been given the responsibility of the ministry of industry, commerce and supply.
Umesh Shrestha, who is the Minister of State for Health in the current cabinet, has been given the responsibility of the office of the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers. Among the Congress representatives in the Council of Ministers is Dr. Minendra Prasad Rijal and Dilendra Prasad Badhu, who is the Minister for Law, Justice, and Parliamentary Affairs, are close to Ram Chandra Poudel. Similarly, from the establishment side, the Minister of Mines, Karki, Khadka, Regmi, and Shrestha have become ministers of state.
From the point of view of the state, Gyanendra Bahadur Karki of Sunsari, Dr. Minendra Prasad Rijal, and Narayan Khadka has become minister Udaipur. The Congress has given Umakanta Chaudhary as a minister from Province 2, Uma Regmi as a minister from Bagmati, and Umesh Shrestha as a Minister of State, while no ministers from Gandaki and Karnali have been appointed as ministers.
Bal Krishna from Lumbini has become the Minister of Mines and Dilendra Prasad Badhu from the Far Western Province. In terms of ethnicity, Congress has given a woman Uma regmi, Chaudhary from the Tharu community as a minister and Umesh Shrestha from the Janajati community as a minister of state. Congress did not make any minister from Dalit, Muslim, and Madhesi quotas. The walkie-talkies represent all the Khas Aryan community.
The Maoist center has included two women, one Madhesi woman, one Dalit, one Janajati woman, and two Khas Aryan men in the cabinet. The center could not get any representation from Province 1 and Far Western Province.
The CPN-Janata Samajwadi Party led by Madhav Kumar Nepal has represented three tribes, one woman and one Khas Arya. Janata Samajwadi, on the other hand, has appointed a minister from one Adivasi Janajati and three Madhesi quotas. Renu Yadav has become a minister from the Madhesi women’s quota. All the three ministers in the Madhesi quota are Yadavs.
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