{"id":5906,"date":"2026-03-27T11:41:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T05:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/khabarbajar.com\/english\/?p=5906"},"modified":"2026-03-27T13:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:17:15","slug":"balendra-shah-appointed-prime-minister-here-are-the-ministers-in-the-new-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/khabarbajar.com\/english\/2026\/03\/27\/balendra-shah-appointed-prime-minister-here-are-the-ministers-in-the-new-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Balendra Shah Appointed Prime Minister; Here Are the Ministers in the New Government…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kathmandu \u2014 President has appointed , the parliamentary party leader of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), as the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n

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He has been appointed as Prime Minister in accordance with Article 76(1) of the Constitution, as the leader of the majority party in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

This marks the first time that a Prime Minister has been appointed under this provision since the promulgation of the Constitution of Nepal 2015. It is also the first time that a person from the Madhesi community has become the Prime Minister of Nepal.<\/p>\n

Shah, who resigned from his post as Mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City to contest in the elections held on 21 Falgun, has become Prime Minister immediately upon entering Parliament for the first time.<\/p>\n

The names of 15 other ministers in the Shah-led government have also been finalised.<\/p>\n

The New Council of Ministers is as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. \u2013 Prime Minister; Minister for Defence and Industry<\/li>\n
  2. \u2013 Minister for Finance<\/li>\n
  3. \u2013 Minister for Home Affairs<\/li>\n
  4. \u2013 Minister for Foreign Affairs<\/li>\n
  5. \u2013 Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport, and Urban Development<\/li>\n
  6. \u2013 Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation<\/li>\n
  7. \u2013 Minister for Tourism<\/li>\n
  8. \u2013 Minister for Education, Science and Technology, and Youth and Sports<\/li>\n
  9. \u2013 Minister for Health and Population<\/li>\n
  10. \u2013 Minister for Communications<\/li>\n
  11. \u2013 Minister for General Administration<\/li>\n
  12. \u2013 Minister for Labour<\/li>\n
  13. \u2013 Minister for Law<\/li>\n
  14. \u2013 Minister for Women and Children<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Kathmandu \u2014 President has appointed , the parliamentary party leader of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), as the Prime Minister. He has been appointed as Prime Minister in accordance with Article 76(1) of the Constitution, as the leader of the majority party in the House of Representatives. This marks the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flash-news","category-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/khabarbajar.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/InShot_20260327_113122254.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/khabarbajar.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/khabarbajar.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/khabarbajar.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khabarbajar.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khabarbajar.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5906"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/khabarbajar.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5910,"href":"https:\/\/khabarbajar.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5906\/revisions\/5910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khabarbajar.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/khabarbajar.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khabarbajar.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khabarbajar.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}