{"id":431041,"date":"2026-06-09T21:19:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=431041"},"modified":"2026-06-09T21:19:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:34:42","slug":"cabinet-reshuffled-with-two-new-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/06\/09\/431041.html","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet reshuffled, with two new ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu:<\/strong> President Ramchandra Paudel has, on the recommendation of the Council of Ministers, today made appointments to and reshuffled the existing Council of Ministers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/PM-Cabinet-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-431042\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/PM-Cabinet-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/PM-Cabinet-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/PM-Cabinet-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/PM-Cabinet.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Office of the President, the Council of Ministers has been reshuffled with division of portfolio as follows in pursuance of Article 76 (9) and on the recommendation of Prime Minister Balendra Shah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Balendra Shah, Prime Minister, Defence <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Dr Swarnim Wagle, Finance <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Shisir Khanal, Foreign Affairs <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. Birajbhakta Shrestha, Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5. Sudhan Gurung, Home Affairs <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6. Sunil Lamsal, Infrastructure Development <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7. Sobita Gautam, Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8. Mahabir Pun, Science, Technology and Innovation <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9. Sita Badi, Women, children, gender and sexual minorities and social security <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10. Pratibha Rawal, Land management, cooperatives, federal and general administration <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11. Nisha Mehta, Health and Food Safety <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12. Sasmit Pokharel, Education and Sports <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13. Khadkaraj Paudel, Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14. Dr Bikram Timilsina, Information and Communications <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15. Gita Chaudhary, Agriculture, Forest and Environment <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16. Gauri Kumari, Industry, Commerce and Supplies <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17. Ramji Yadav, Youth, Labour and Employment <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also today, newly appointed ministers Sudhan Gurung and Mahabir Pun took the oath of office and secrecy before the President at a special ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhawan today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RSS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Office of the President, the Council of Ministers has been reshuffled with division of portfolio as follows in pursuance of Article 76 (9) and on the recommendation of Prime Minister Balendra Shah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":431042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,2],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-431041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-top-stories-main"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431043,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431041\/revisions\/431043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431041"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=431041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}