Nepali Congress central committee member NP Saud will be sworn in as the Minister for Foreign Affairs on Sunday.

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba on Saturday reached an agreement to appoint Saud as the new foreign minister, according to sources.

The oath-taking ceremony will be held at Sheetal Niwas, the President’s Office, at 3pm on Sunday.

Saud was irrigation minister in 2014 in the Sushil Koirala-led government.

The Cabinet is yet to get full shape as Congress has not recommended all the names for the ministerial berths owing to internal disputes in the party.

Only four leaders of the Congress from the Deuba camp were appointed ministers on March 31 as the faction led by the party’s senior leader Shekhar Koirala and General Secretary Gagan Thapa didn’t submit names of ministers from their side.

Saud, who is also from the Deuba camp, was elected to the House of Representatives from Kanchanpur-2.

The largest party Congress is to get eight ministerial positions as per the power-sharing agreement reached among the partners in the ruling alliance.

For the past month and a half, Prime Minister Dahal himself has been handling the foreign ministry that has been allocated to the Congress as part of a power-sharing deal. Foreign ministry officials had said the absence of a dedicated foreign minister has greatly affected their work.