As of this moment, the cabinet has only six ministers serving Nepal despite the fact that the incumbent government is a month old now.

Earlier, a meeting was held between the top political leaders of the Nepali Congress (NC), CPN (Maoist Center), and CPN (Unified Socialist) on Sunday. The leaders were told to have discussed cabinet expansion.

Prime Minister Sher Deuba, CPN (Maoist Center) Chairman Pushpa Dahal, CPN (Unified Socialist) Chairman Madhav Nepal, Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP) Chairman Upendra Yadav, and Federal Council Chairman of JSP Baburam Bhattarai are hammering out their differences in today’s meeting at Baluwatar.

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Finally, 50 days after assuming office, the Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba expanded his cabinet on Wednesday with 19 ministers from four political parties, thus increasing his cabinet strength to 27.

While the Nepali Congress has demanded for 33 percent women representation in the cabinet, the new expansion managed to accommodate only 11 percent.

The cabinet has 11 ministries, including one Deputy PM from the Tarai and Tharu communities.

However, according to the party leaders, there is yet another cabinet expansion that is expected to take place soon.

The expansion move has been one of the major tasks for the Prime Minister, who was under intense pressure to conduct remaining phases of local elections, amend the constitution and oversee provincial & federal elections (slated for January 2018), when he assumed the chair.

Deuba seems to have faced a strong pressure in selecting ministers for his cabinet. This became evident in his decision of changing proposed names hours before the oath ceremony on Wednesday.

According to a senior official involved in discussions on the expansion, Deuba faced challenges in maintaining balance while choosing ministries as caste, groups and region were also to be considered.

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The Nepali Congress (NC) and the CPN-MC have come to an agreement on the ministerial berths to be shared by the two parties in PM Sher Bahadur Deuba’s cabinet. In a meeting held on Tuesday to sort out this issue, PM Deuba, Bimalendra Nidhi and Ramesh Lekhak represented the NC, while CPN-MC was represented by CPN-MC Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Krishna Bahadur Mahara, Minister for Home Affairs Janardan Sharma and Barshaman Pun. Following this development, the cabinet expansion is likely to happen today.

According to Ramesh Lekhak, Nepali Congress, which heads the ministries of finance, education, and labor and employment, will get 13 new portfolios including Defense, Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Physical Infrastructure and Transport, Information and Communications. CPN-MC will get nine ministries which include Health, Agriculture and General administration among others. The party handles the ministries of Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Federal Affairs and Local Development at present.

Bhanu Deuba, the Prime Minister’s Chief Personal Secretary said that both the parties would discuss the constitution amendment with the leaders of Rastriya Janata Party-Nepal before the cabinet expansion.

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