{"id":7957,"date":"2017-10-18T11:48:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T11:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=7957"},"modified":"2017-10-18T11:48:44","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T11:48:44","slug":"nepal-pm-sher-bahadur-deuba-strips-maoist-ministers-of-their-portfolios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/nepal-pm-sher-bahadur-deuba-strips-maoist-ministers-of-their-portfolios\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal PM Sher Bahadur Deuba strips Maoist ministers of their portfolios"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"itemTitle\">Nepalese prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba on Tuesday stripped 17 Maoist ministers \u2014 10 cabinet and seven minister of state rank \u2014 in his ministry of their portfolios after they defied his instructions to quit.<\/h2>\n<div class=\"itemFullText\">\n<p>Deuba had asked them to leave his ministry after Maoists had joined the main opposition Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist-led Left alliance announced earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>He sacked the ministers hours after Maoist leader and home minister Janardan Sharma held a press conference and said the Maoists will not withdraw their ministers from the government.<\/p>\n<p>Sharma accused Deuba of \u201cconspiring to postpone\u201d provincial and federal elections scheduled in two phases on November 26 and December 7.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Election Commission has informed us about Prime Minister Deuba\u2019s move and therefore we are not going to quit the government as we had planned earlier,\u201d he said at the press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Sharma\u2019s statement came after Maoist Chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal had assured Deuba that all his ministers were going to quit on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A furious Deuba conveyed to Dahal that he would snatch portfolios of the Maoist ministers after the press conference.<\/p>\n<p>He offered energy ministry to Kamal Thapa, who was recently inducted as deputy prime minister along with six others from the Pro-Hindutva Rastriya Prajatantra Party<\/p>\n<p>Deuba assumed responsibility of home and foreign affairs portfolios. Sharma had earlier held the portfolios.<\/p>\n<p>Deuba apparently did not sack the Maoist ministers earlier as the Left alliance has been insisting that the Prime Minister can not remove them without the party concerned withdrawing them.<\/p>\n<p>The ministers stripped of their portfolios are left without offices. They will, however, continue to enjoy other ministerial privileges.<\/p>\n<p>Deuba, who is also the Chairman of the Nepali Congress, had given a deadline to Dahal to withdraw his ministers or face dismissals last week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepalese prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba on Tuesday stripped 17 Maoist ministers \u2014 10 cabinet and seven minister of state rank \u2014 in his ministry of their portfolios after they defied his instructions to quit. 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