Kathmandu. The newly appointed Chief Minister of Bagmati Province Shalikram Jammakattel has taken the oath of office and secrecy. State chief Yadav Chandra Sharma administered the oath to Jammakattel on Tuesday morning. Maoist Center Parliamentary Party leader Shalikram Jammakattel was appointed as Chief Minister on Monday. With the oath, he has also expanded his cabinet. He made one person from UML and RPP participate in the cabinet in the first phase. He appointed UML party leader Jagannath Thapaliya as the Minister of Economic Affairs and Planning and RPP’s Uddhav Thapa as a non-departmental minister. The newly appointed ministers were sworn in on Tuesday morning.
Jammakattel submitted a claim for government formation on Monday. He submitted the claim with the signatures of 70 MPs two hours before the deadline given by the provincial chief. Jammakattel has 21 members from Maoist Center, 27 from UML, 13 from RPP, 7 from CPN S with 2 MPs from our Nepali Party.
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