{"id":6525,"date":"2021-03-19T15:59:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T10:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=6525"},"modified":"2021-03-19T15:59:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T10:14:56","slug":"govt-appoints-ramesh-badal-as-new-attorney-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=6525","title":{"rendered":"Govt appoints Ramesh Badal as new Attorney General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>KATHMANDU &#8211;<\/strong> The government has appointed Ramesh Badal as the new Attorney General of the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Based on the government\u2019s recommendation, President Bidya Devi Bhandari on Friday appointed Badal as the new Auditor General of the country. The government appointed Badal as the new Auditor General after Agni Prasad Kharel tendered his resignation from the post on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lawyer by profession, Badal is also a vice president of General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions (GEFONT), a trade union close to the main ruling CPN (UML).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Auditor General works as the chief legal advisor of the government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Badal was also a lawyer who had defended Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli\u2019s move to dissolve the House of Representatives in the Supreme Court which later reinstated the lower house.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He will be administered the oath of office and secrecy by President Bhandari on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KATHMANDU &#8211; The government has appointed Ramesh Badal as the new Attorney General of the country. 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The government appointed Badal as the new Auditor General after Agni Prasad Kharel tendered his resignation from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Govt appoints Ramesh Badal as new Attorney General - KathmanduPati<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=6525\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Govt appoints Ramesh Badal as new Attorney General - KathmanduPati\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"KATHMANDU &#8211; The government has appointed Ramesh Badal as the new Attorney General of the country. 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