July 6: Finance Minister Janardan Sharma has tendered his resignation from the post.    
Addressing a meeting of the House of Representatives (HoR) on Wednesday, Minister Sharma announced his resignation from the post to help the Parliamentary Special Probe Committee.    

Speaking at the house meeting, Sharma said he is ready to facilitate the probe committee and maintained that he did not do anything wrong while drafting the budget.
Earlier, the HoR had formed the committee to carry out investigation about the involvement of unauthorized persons in course of preparing budget for the upcoming fiscal year (FY 2022/23).    
The 11-member probe committee includes Khagaraj Adhikari, Dev Prasad Gurung, Pushpa Bhusal Gautam, Pradeep Gyawali, Bhanu Bhakta Dhakal, Bimala BK, Laxman Lal Karna, Shakti Bahadur Basnet, Sarala Kumari Yadav, Sitaram Mahato and Surendra Prasad Yadav.

After the finance minister courted controversy, Finance Secretary Madhu Kumar Marasini took an indefinite leave starting from today (July 6).     (With inputs from RSS)

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