Second Oli cabinet

Second Oli Cabinet

cabinet of Nepal
2018-present
Date formed 15 February 2018
People and organisations
Head of state Bidhya Devi Bhandari
Head of government Khadga Prasad Oli
Member party Nepal Communist Party
Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal
Status in legislature Supermajority (coalition)
Opposition party Nepali Congress
Opposition leader Sher Bahadur Deuba
History
Election(s) 2017 Nepalese legislative election
Legislature term(s) House of Representatives
Predecessor Deuba Cabinet

The second Oli cabinet is the current Government of Nepal after on 15 February 2018, Khadga Prasad Oli got elected as the new Prime Minister of Nepal following the 2017 Nepalese election. Oli's candidacy was supported by the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre). He assumed his office along with two ministers with the remaining ministers still to be named.[1] While the 2015 Constitution of Nepal set the maximum numbers of ministers (including State Ministers) to 25, Oli decided to have 17 ministries under him, which is less than the previous cabinets with each around 30 ministries.[2][3]

The first expansion to the cabinet was made on 26 February 2018, when seven more ministers were sworn in,[4] while the second expansion took place on 16 March 2018.[5]

On 11 March 2018, Oli won a Motion of Confidence with 208 out of 268 votes in the 275-member House of Representatives.[6]

Despite the naming suggesting otherwise, the cabinet is not the extension of the first Oli cabinet, two different cabinets were formed by two different Nepalese Prime Ministers in between both Oli cabinets. Apart from Prime Minister Oli, only two other ministers served in both cabinets, Giriraj Mani Pokharel, who headed the Ministry of Education both times and Shakti Bahadur Basnet, who served in two different ministries in the two cabinets.

Ministers

Portfolio[1][4][5] Minister Party Assumed Office Left Office
Prime Minister of Nepal[lower-alpha 1] Khadga Prasad Oli Nepal Communist Party 15 February 2018
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense[lower-alpha 2] Ishwor Pokharel Nepal Communist Party 26 February 2018
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health and Population[lower-alpha 1] Upendra Yadav Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal 1 June 2018
Minister for Federal Affairs and General Administration Lal Babu Pandit[lower-alpha 3] Nepal Communist Party 16 March 2018
Minister for Women, Children and Senior Citizen Tham Maya Thapa[lower-alpha 4] Nepal Communist Party 15 February 2018
Minister of Home Affairs Ram Bahadur Thapa Nepal Communist Party 26 February 2018
Minister of Finance Yuba Raj Khatiwada Nepal Communist Party 26 February 2018
Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies Matrika Yadav Nepal Communist Party 26 February 2018
Minister of Foreign Affairs Pradip Kumar Gyawali Nepal Communist Party 16 March 2018
Minister for Education, Science and Technology Giriraj Mani Pokharel Nepal Communist Party 16 March 2018
Minister of Physical Infrastructure and Transportation Raghubir Mahaseth Nepal Communist Party 16 March 2018
Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Rabindra Prasad Adhikari Nepal Communist Party 16 March 2018
Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Sher Bahadur Tamang Nepal Communist Party 16 March 2018 24 July 2018[12]
Bhanubhakta Dhakal[13] Nepal Communist Party 3 August 2018
Minister for Water Resources and Energy Barsaman Pun Nepal Communist Party 16 March 2018
Minister for Labour, Employment, and Social Protection Gokarna Bista Nepal Communist Party 16 March 2018
Minister for Forests and Environment Shakti Bahadur Basnet Nepal Communist Party 16 March 2018
Minister of Water Supply Bina Magar Nepal Communist Party 16 March 2018
Minister for Agricultural and Livestock Development[lower-alpha 5] Chakrapani Khanal Nepal Communist Party 16 March 2018
Minister for Youth and Sports Jagat Bahadur Bishwakarma Nepal Communist Party 16 March 2018
Minister for Information and Communications[lower-alpha 6] Gokul Prasad Baskota Nepal Communist Party 1 June 2018
Minister for Urban Development[lower-alpha 1] Mohammad Estiyak Rai Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal 1 June 2018
Minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation[lower-alpha 5] Padma Kumari Aryal Nepal Communist Party 3 August 2018

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Prime Minister Oli was also in charge of the Ministry of Health and Population (Nepal) as well as the Ministry of Urban Development until 31 May 2018.[7][8]
  2. ↑ Pokharel was appointed Deputy Prime Minister on 1 June 2018, prior to that he only served as Minister of Defence[9]
  3. ↑ Pandit was given the portfolio of Population and Environment on 15 February 2018 which was converted to Ministry of Health and Population following the ministry reorganization of February 23, 2018. His portfolio was changed to Federal Affairs and General Administration on 16 March 2018[10]
  4. ↑ Thapa was given the portfolio of Women, Children and Social Welfare which was converted to Ministry of Labour, Employment, Women, Children and Social Security following the ministry reorganization of February 23, 2018. The ministry's portfolio was again adjusted to Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizen on 17 March 2018[11]
  5. 1 2 Chakrapani Khanal was in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture, Land Management and Cooperatives until 2 August 20, however, due to a cabinet expansion, Padma Kumari Aryal became the new Minister of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation, while Khanal's portfolio was changed to Ministry of Agricultural and Livestock Development[14]
  6. ↑ Baskota served as State Minister for Information and Communications from 16 March 2018 until 31 May 2018, before being promoted to Minister for Information and Communications on 1 June 2018[8]

References

  1. 1 2 "PM Oli assumes Office". The Himalayan Times. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
  2. ↑ "Cabinet decides to have 17 ministries". The Himalayan Times. 24 February 2018. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
  3. ↑ "Four new ministers inducted in Nepal's first cabinet". Business Standard. 27 February 2018. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
  4. 1 2 "Oli expands cabinet to 7, inducts 2 Maoists". República. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
  5. 1 2 "Nepali PM expands cabinet by inducting 11 new ministers". Xinhua. 16 March 2018. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
  6. ↑ "Nepal PM Oli wins vote of confidence". Business Standard. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
  7. ↑ "Council of Ministers". Government of Nepal. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  8. 1 2 "Yadav appointed as Minister for Health, Raya as Minister for Urban Development". The Kathmandu Post. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  9. ↑ "Prez appoints Pokhrel and Yadav as deputy prime ministers". The Himalayan Times. 1 June 2018. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  10. ↑ "लालबाबु पण्डित फेरि फर्किए सामान्य प्रशासन मन्त्रालयमा". Pahilopost. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
  11. ↑ "Ministries split to create posts". The Kathmandu Post. 17 March 2018. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
  12. ↑ "Law Minister Tamang calls it quits after controversial remarks". The Kathmandu Post. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  13. ↑ "Dhakal appointed Law Minister". Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  14. ↑ "PM expands Cabinet". The Kathmandu Post. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
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