Nepal: KP Sharma Oli to take oath as PM today; Ministerial list being finalised

Kathmandu: KP Sharma Oli is set to become Nepal's new Prime Minister, on Sunday evening, setting him up for his fourth prime ministerial term. 

Meanwhile, the Oli's Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) and Nepali Congress (NC) coalition are finalising ministerial list.

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Oli, the CPN-UML chairman held consultations with his alliance partner, the Nepali Congress, in preparing the list of ministers to be inducted into the new coalition government. Nepal President Ram Chandra Paudel is expected to appoint Oli, 72, as the new Prime Minister.

Paudel on Friday evening had called the political parties in the Nepali parliament to stake a claim for the Prime Minister as Pushpa Kamal Dahal lost a confidence motion on Friday. The President had called for the claim of stake as per the Article 76 (2) of the constitution. (with Agency inputs)

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