{"id":16046,"date":"2026-03-27T21:16:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T15:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/?p=16046"},"modified":"2026-03-27T21:16:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T15:31:49","slug":"15-ministers-also-took-the-oath-of-office-and-secrecy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/15-ministers-also-took-the-oath-of-office-and-secrecy\/","title":{"rendered":"15 ministers also took the oath of office and secrecy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Balendra Shah (Balen) has been sworn in as the Prime Minister.\u00a0President Ram Chandra Poudel administered the oath of office and secrecy to Balen as the country&#8217;s 43rd Prime Minister at a program organized at Sheetal Niwas on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with Prime Minister Balen, 15 ministers also took the oath of office and secrecy. Balen has kept the ministries of defense and industry with him.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In which Dr. Swarnim Wagle is the Minister of Finance, Sudan Gurung is the Minister of Home Affairs, Shishir Khanal is the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sunil Lamsal is the Minister of Physical Infrastructure, Biraj Bhakta Shrestha is the Minister of Energy, Ganesh Poudel is the Minister of Tourism,\u00a0Sashmit Pokharel is the Minister of Education, Nisha Mehta is the Minister of Health, and Dr. Bikram Timalsina is the Minister of Communications.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pratibha Rawal has been sworn in as the Minister of General Administration, Sobita Gautam as the Minister of Law, Geeta Chaudhary as the Minister of Agriculture, Deepak Shah as the Minister of Labor, and Sita Badi as the Minister of Women and Children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balendra Shah (Balen) has been sworn in as the Prime Minister.\u00a0President Ram Chandra Poudel administered the oath of office and secrecy to Balen as the country&#8217;s 43rd Prime Minister at a program organized at Sheetal Niwas on Friday. Along with Prime Minister Balen, 15 ministers also took the oath of office and secrecy. Balen has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":16047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[439],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16048,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16046\/revisions\/16048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16046"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=16046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}