INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KATHMANDU, JULY 15President Ramchandra Paudel today administered the oath of office and secrecy to 19 newly-appointed
ministers in the KP Sharma Oli-led government.
DPM Singh and Paudel take oath of office and secrecy
Prime Minister Oli taking oath of office today
Prithvi Subba Gurung (Minister for Communications and Information Technology), Ramesh Lekhak (Home
Affairs), Sharat Singh Bhandari (Labour, Employment and Social Security), Dr
Arzu Rana (Foreign Affairs), Pradip Yadav (Water Supply and Sanitation), Balaram Adhikari (Land Management, Cooperatives, and Poverty
Alleviation), Damodar Bhandari (Industry, Commerce and Supplies), and Nawal Kishor Shah Sudi (Women, Children, and Senior Citizens) took the
oath before the Head of the State at the Office of the President today.
Photo: RSS
Likewise, Devendra Dahal (Physical Infrastructure and Transport), Tejulal Chaudhary (Youth and Sports ),
Pradip Paudel ( Health and Population), Ajay Kumar Chaurasiya (Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs), Badri Prasad Pandey (Culture,
Tourism and Civil Aviation), Ramnath Adhikari (Agriculture and Livestock Development), Bidhya Bhattarai ( Education, Science and
Technology), Manbir Rai ( Defense), Deepak Khadka ( Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation), Raj Kumar Gupta ( Federal Affairs and General
Administration) and Ain Bahadur Shahi (Forests and Environment ) were also among those ministers who were sworn in by the President.Prior to
this, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli took the oath before the President
It was followed by the oath-taking ceremony of Deputy Prime Ministers Prakashman Singh and Bishnu Prasad Paudel.Vice President Ram Sahaya
Prasad Yadav, Prime Minister Oli, Chief Judge Bishowambhar Prasad Shrestha, Speaker Devraj Ghimire, National Assembly (NA) Chairperson
Narayana Prasad Dahal, outgoing Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda', former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, Jhalanath Khanal
and Dr Baburam Bhattarai, various political leaders, lawmakers, government's senior officials, chiefs of security agencies, chiefs and
representatives of Nepal-based diplomatic missions and distinguished personalities from different walks in the society were present on the
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