Bijay Kumar Gachhadar and Kamal Thapa were sworn in as Deputy Prime Ministers.
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It is the first time that Oli has become the prime minister.
The fuel shortages have become so acute that traffic has been kept off the roads. Nepals 598 members of parliament will select the nation’s new prime minister on Sunday, October 11.
Nepal’s parliament on Sunday chose veteran politician KP Sharma Oli as the new prime minister, weeks after the quake-devastated country adopted a new constitution, the speaker announced.
KP Sharma Oli has been sworn in as Nepal’s 38th Prime Minister at a ceremony in Shital Niwas, Kathmandu on Monday. Outgoing prime minister’s Nepali Congress party has 203 seats and Oli’s CPN-UML 183 seats in parliament.
Nepal’s parliament includes 31 parties.
Oli was supported by the UCPN-Maoist, Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal, Madhesi Janadhikar Forum-Loktantrik and 11 other parties in the prime ministerial contest. The disaster also damaged the tourism industry, which relies on Westerners to trek the mountain trails and climb the soaring peaks.Olis party, known to be a center leftist group, has traditionally followed an economic policy that combines capitalist and socialist principles.
Oli must also work to fix ties with giant influential neighbour India which supplies all of the impoverished country’s fuel.
Protesters from Nepal’s southern plains are incensed about the charter, which will divide the country into several federal provinces.
The formal talks between the government and the Joint Madhesi Front (JMF) – the main agitating group – have formally begun in.
It is now for the mainstream political parties in Nepal to conclude the process of constitutional amendments, so that normalcy returns to strife-torn Terai region which continues to face unrest.
New Delhi, for its part, officially denies any involvement in the blockade, saying it is Nepal’s unstable security situation that is impeding cross-border traffic.
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