BIRATNAGAR, Jan 12: Province 1 Chief Minister (CM) Hikmat Kumar Karki has expanded his cabinet by adding two ministers from the Maoist Center and one from the CPN-UML.
BIRATNAGAR: Chief Minister of Province 1 Hikmat Karki has expanded his cabinet on Friday. With three more ministers taking oath on Friday, a 7-member cabinet has been formed in the province. Among the newly-appointed three ministers from Maoist Center are Durga Chapagai, and Jeevan Acharya, and Buddhi Kumar Rajbhandari from UML. The Maoist Center, which […]
KATHMANDU: Dr Purna Loksom has been appointed as the vice chairman of Planning Commission of Province 1. A cabinet meeting of Province 1 held on Monday night decided to appoint Dr Loksam to the post. Similarly, the cabinet meeting decided to appoint Gyanendra Bahadur Karki of Sankhuwasabha, Narayan Koirala of Sunsari, Prakash Rai of Bhojpur […]
BIRATNAGAR, Feb 1: The provincial government is preparing to split the existing ministries in Province 1 into 12 ministries. Sunday's cabinet meeting decided to split the existing seven ministries into 12.
ITAHARI, August 26: Chief Minister of Province 1, Sherdhan Rai has resigned from his post at noon and Bhim Acharya has been appointed as new Chief Minister of the province. Acharya was sworn in as the new CM by Province Chief Somnath Adhikari (Pyasi) early afternoon.
Before his resignation, CM Rai, also the parliamentary party leader of CPN (UML) Province 1, had proposed Acharya as new parliamentary party leader of the CPN (UML) at a meeting held after 11 am at Asiatique Hotel of Biratnahar.
Acharya has already worked as federal tourism minister during the premiership of Sushil Koirala.
CM Acharya needs to prove his majority within 30 days as article 188(2) of the constitution demands to prove majority within 30 days of appointment if the majority party witness split.
In the 93-member Provincial Assembly, there are only 92 members, currently, CPN (UML) has 51, Nepali Congress has 21, CPN (Maoist) Center has 15 members respectively. People's Socialist Party, RPP and Limbuwan each have 3, 1 and 1 respectively. CPN (Maoist) Center had expelled its former parliamentary party leader Tanka Angbohang after he defected to CPN (UML) bringing down Provincial Assembly member to 92 only.
Sherdhan Rai was appointed as Chief Minister on 14 February 2018. He had defeated Bhim Acharya by 26 vote against Acharya's 24 in the parliamentary party leader election within CPN (UML), the party with absolute majority on 9 February 2018. One vote was disqualified.
As of now, three members of Provincial Assembly have tilted towards Madhab Nepal's new founded party CPN (United Socialist). They are Rajendra Rai from Bhojpur constituency number 1 (1), Ganesh Kumar Kambang of Panchthar constituency number 1(1) and Rajan Rai of Khotang constituency number 1(1).
To form the cabinet required 47 members, this is impossible if more than four members from CPN (UML) defect for the new party.
