{"id":1335,"date":"2020-09-04T11:18:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T05:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2020-09-04T15:27:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T09:42:42","slug":"cabinet-meeting-to-be-held-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=1335","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet meeting to be held today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KATHMANDU: The cabinet meeting is scheduled to be held today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The meeting will be held at 11 am at the Prime Minister\u2019s residence, among others, to make the decision to recommend Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Vice Chairman Bam Dev Gautam to President Bidya Devi Bhandari for his appointment as a member of the National Assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier on Thursday, the secretariat meeting of the main ruling NCP had decided to nominate Gautam as a National Assembly member, a post that has been lying vacant for six months after the two-year tenure of Finance Minister Yuba Raj Khatiwada came to an end in March.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a constitutional provision, three members, including at least one woman, are to be nominated by the President in a 59-member National Assembly based on the recommendation of the Government of Nepal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Along with Khatiwada, Ram Narayan Bidari and Bimala Rai Poudyal have also been appointed as National Assembly members by President Bhandari based upon the recommendation of the cabinet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Khatiwada\u2019s two-year tenure in the National Assembly, which was based on a lottery system, had expired in March.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, Prime Minister Oli has decided to allow Khatiwada to continue as Finance Minister based on a constitutional provision that allows him to tap into non-parliamentary members as a minister for six months. However, Khatiwada\u2019s six-month tenure as Finance Minister will be coming to an end on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite his interest in nominating Khatiwada again, Oli had been facing pressure from the party to appoint Gautam instead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The appointment of Gautam now marks an end of Khatiwada\u2019s tenure as the Finance Minister.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KATHMANDU: The cabinet meeting is scheduled to be held today. The meeting will be held at 11 am at the Prime Minister\u2019s residence, among others, to make the decision to recommend Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Vice Chairman Bam Dev Gautam to President Bidya Devi Bhandari for his appointment as a member of the National Assembly. 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