{"id":5911,"date":"2026-03-27T13:07:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/khabarbajar.com\/english\/?p=5911"},"modified":"2026-03-27T13:09:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:24:49","slug":"swearing-in-and-assumption-of-office-by-the-newly-appointed-prime-minister-and-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/khabarbajar.com\/english\/2026\/03\/27\/swearing-in-and-assumption-of-office-by-the-newly-appointed-prime-minister-and-ministers\/","title":{"rendered":"Swearing-in and Assumption of Office by the Newly Appointed Prime Minister and Ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kathmandu \u2014 President has administered the oath of office and secrecy to the newly appointed Prime Minister and members of the Council of Ministers.<\/p>\n

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The parliamentary party leader of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), which secured a majority in the House of Representatives elections held on 21 Falgun, took the oath of office along with other ministers nominated by the party.<\/p>\n

The swearing-in ceremony has drawn criticism for being overly extravagant. Critics have remarked that the event resembled the grandeur of royal coronation ceremonies during the monarchical era.<\/p>\n

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

The new Council of Ministers is as follows:<\/h2>\n

\u2013 Prime Minister; Minister for Defence and Industry<\/p>\n

\u2013 Minister for Finance<\/p>\n

\u2013 Minister for Home Affairs<\/p>\n

\u2013 Minister for Foreign Affairs<\/p>\n

\u2013 Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport, and Urban Development<\/p>\n

\u2013 Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation<\/p>\n

\u2013 Minister for Tourism<\/p>\n

\u2013 Minister for Education, Science and Technology, and Youth and Sports<\/p>\n

\u2013 Minister for Health and Population<\/p>\n

\u2013 Minister for Communications<\/p>\n

\u2013 Minister for General Administration<\/p>\n

\u2013 Minister for Labour<\/p>\n

\u2013 Minister for Law<\/p>\n

\u2013 Minister for Women and Children<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kathmandu \u2014 President has administered the oath of office and secrecy to the newly appointed Prime Minister and members of the Council of Ministers. The parliamentary party leader of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), which secured a majority in the House of Representatives elections held on 21 Falgun, took the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5911","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\/Screenshot_20260327_123307_YouTube.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/khabarbajar.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911","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=5911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/khabarbajar.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5914,"href":"https:\/\/khabarbajar.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911\/revisions\/5914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khabarbajar.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/khabarbajar.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khabarbajar.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khabarbajar.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}