Nepal: President administers oath of office to newly appointed PM Prachanda

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President Bidya Devi Bhandari administered the oath on Monday to eight ministers including Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dhal ‘ Prachanda’ as per Article 76(2) of the constitution. They took the oath of office and secrecy in a special ceremony held at the President’s Office Sheetal Niwas.

Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ took oath as Prime Minister. Similarly, seven other ministers also took the oath. After Dahal took oath as Prime Minister, three Deputy Prime Ministers, and four ministers without portfolios took the oath of office and secrecy.

Bishnu Poudel took an oath of office and secrecy as Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Narayan Kaji Shrestha as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport, and Rabi Lamichhane has taken the oath of office as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Home Affairs. 

Likewise, Damodar Bhandari, Jwala Kumari Sah, Rajendra Rai, and Abdul Khan took an oath to office and secrecy without portfolios. 

In the eight-member council of ministers who took oath today, two ministers including the prime minister and one deputy prime minister from the Maoist center, four ministers including one deputy prime minister from CPN (UML), home minister and deputy prime minister from Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister from Rashtriya Swatantra Party and Abdul Khan from Janamat Party.

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