Kathmandu, June 16
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba on Friday assigned portfolio to CPN-Maoist Centre’s Prabhu Sah, who was inducted in the Cabinet as minister without portfolio on June 7.
The prime minister gave Sah charge of the Ministry of Urban Development following his meeting with the CPN-MC Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal.
A version of this article appears in print on June 17, 2017 of The Himalayan Times.
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