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Kathmandu Sunday January 28, 2001 Magh 15, 2057.
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Cabinet reshuffle in the offing
Post Report
KATHMANDU, Jan 27 – Just a week after winning the
coveted post of the Party President of the ruling Nepali Congress (NC), Prime Minister
Girija Prasad Koirala has begun groundwork to reshuffle the cabinet and nominate the
remaining members for the Central Working Committee (CWC) of the party.
Prime Minister Koirala has started consulting his close
aides regarding the cabinet reshuffle and nomination of the remaining 18 CWC members
today, said a source close to Koirala. "The list of the new ministers and the members
nomination will be finalised only after discussing with the Senior Leader Krishna Prasad
Bhattarai," said the source.
The newly elected Party President Koirala is expected to
nominate Bhattarai to show special respect to him. It is believed that Koirala will
nominate Bhattarai prior to the distribution of certificate to the newly elected CWC
members including himself. According to the source there is also probability of nominating
Sher Bahadur Deuba, who lost to Koirala and Nona Koirala along with Bhattarai for CWC
member.
The Prime Minister who is also NC President, can nominate
18 members in the 37 CWC members while the 18 others were elected during the party’s
general convention in Pokhara earlier this week.
The reshuffle is expected to take place around Wednesday so
that the new ministers will have at least a week to adapt and get a crash course before
the Winter Session of the Parliament that begins on February 8.
The source said that the Prime Minister this time will also
include his opponents in the cabinet and the CWC members to lessen the widening
polarisation within the party.
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