June 5:  Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has inducted three Deputy Prime Ministers, 12 ministers and two State Ministers, retained four ministers and removed 13 ministers in his latest cabinet reshuffle. 

Prime Minister Oli reshuffling of his cabinet on Friday follows recent dissolution of the House of Representatives and announcement to hold midterm elections in November.     
President Bhandari administerd oath of office to all newly appointed ministers of the Oli-led cabinet on Friday evening. 

NEW FACES IN OLI-LED CABINET 
According to the notice of the Office of the President, President Bidya Devi Bhandari, upon the recommendation of Prime Minister Oli, appointed Bishnu Prasad Paudel as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Raghubir Mahaseth as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Rajendra Mahato as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Urban Development. While Paudel was already the Minister for Finance, Mahaseth and Mahato are newly appointed members in the Oli-led cabinet. 
Earlier, Pradeep Gyawali was the Foreign Affairs Minister while Prime Minister Oli was himself overseeing the portfolio of Ministry of Urban Development after Prabhu Sah lost his ministerial berth on May 18 following a Supreme Court’s order to bar seven ministers from working as ministers.
Sharad Singh Bhandari (Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation), Anil Kumar Jha (Minister for Drinking Water), Sher Bahadur Tamang (Minister for Health and Population), Laxman Lal Karna (Minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation) and Bimal Prasad Srivastav (Minister for Labour, Employment and Social Security) are new faces in the reshuffled cabinet. 
Umashankar Argariya becomes the new Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation while the new Minister for Women, Children and Senior Citizens is Chanda Chaudhary. Chandra Kanta Chaudhary and Renuka Gurung are appointed as Minister of State for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation and Minister for State for Women, Children and Senior Citizens respectively. 

RETAINED MINISTERS 

Prime Minister Oli retained Basanta Kumar Newmbwang (Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transportation), Lilanath Shrestha (Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs) and Krishna Gopal Shrestha (Minister for Education, Science and Technology) in his reshuffled cabinet.  Similarly, Prime Minister Oli decided to keep seven portfolio with himself.  Industry, Commerce and Supplies, Agriculture and Livestock Development, Defence, Home Affairs, Forest and Environment, Federal Affairs and General Administration and Communication and Information Technology are the ministries that Prime Minister Oli will oversee himself. 

THOSE WHO LOST MINISTERIAL BERTH
Prime Minister Oli bade farewell to 13 ministers along with Gyawali who was the Foreign Minister since the Oli-led government was formed in February 2018.  
Those others removed from the cabinet are Deputy Prime Minister Ishwor Pokharel, Bhanubhakta Dhakal (Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation) Padma Kumari Aryal (Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Development), Parbat Gurung (Minister for Communication and Information Technology) and Shiva Maya Tumbahangphe (Minister for Lnad Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation). 
Ganesh Singh Thagunna (Minister for Federal Affairs and General Affairs) and Juli Kumar Mahato (Minister for Women, Children and Senior Citizen) have also been relieved from their posts. Similarly, Prime Minister Oli also lost their posts on Friday.