New coalition government formed in Nepal
Mar 05, 2024
Kathmandu [Nepal], March 5: Nepali Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Monday broke his coalition with the Nepali Congress party and reshuffled the cabinet.
Dahal, chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Center), joined hands with the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) and after removing all the cabinet ministers, he initially introduced three ministers into the new cabinet, with one from the CPN-UML and the others from CPN (Maoist Center) and the Rastriya Swatantra Party.
Ministers from the Nepali Congress party did not offer to resign, but waiting for the prime minister to remove them on the grounds that it was Dahal who broke the alliance, not their party.
President Ram Chandra Poudel later administered the oath of office to the three new ministers, the president's office said.
Dahal, also known as Prachanda, took office as the head of a coalition government in December 2022 after no single party won a majority of seats in the lower house in the general elections a month earlier in the South Asian country. The Nepali Congress party joined the coalition later following the exit of the CPN-UML.
Source: Xinhua
