President Ramchanda Paudel on Monday administered the oath of office and secrecy to three new ministers.
Hit Bahadur Tamang from the CPN (Maoist Centre), Padam Giri from the CPN-UML and DP Aryal from the Rastriya Swatantra Party were sworn in as ministers without portfolio.
Giri is the former minister for health and population, Tamang is the former minister for youth and sports and Aryal is the former minister for labour, employment and social security.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal decided to induct new ministers into the Cabinet after changing his coalition partners.
Breaking the alliance with the Nepali Congress, the largest party in the House of Representatives, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal joined hands with the CPN-UML, the second-largest in the lower house.
Mistrust between the ruling Congress and the Maoist Centre has been brewing for a long time. Prime Minister Dahal was expressing his displeasure with some senior Congress leaders saying that Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba was not cooperating in his plan to replace some ministers despite their failure to perform well in the government.
The prime minister in his address to the nation in the last week of December last year had announced that he would replace the minister who failed to deliver.
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