Article 76 (9) of the 2072 Constitution states that the federal government's Council of Ministers shall have a maximum of 25 members. Nowadays, the general public occasionally asks, "If the number had not been specified in the Constitution, how many members would the leaders have formed the Council of Ministers in the name of preserving power?"

After the multi-party system was truly achieved, the number of ministers expanded under the leadership of Sher Bahadur Deuba in 2052 Mangsir has proven the naturalness and reality of the questions raised by the general public. Citizens still consider that jumbo cabinet as a distortion created by the government.

UML became the largest party in the 2051 mid-term elections to the House of Representatives. After the collapse of the nine-month-old government of UML, which was formed as the largest party, Deuba, the leader of the Congress parliamentary party, became the Prime Minister. With the support of the government, the Deuba government was formed with the support of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party, Nepal Sadbhavana Party, and independent MPs. All the parties of the ruling party were represented in the cabinet.

The number of members of the cabinet was not specified in the Constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal, 2047. Taking advantage of that, Deuba's expansion of the cabinet in the name of maintaining power is still portrayed in history as an incident that brought disrepute to the system. The cabinet formed on Bhadra 27, 2051 was changed to 26 members on Asoj 6. Three months later, the cabinet was expanded again to 44 members.

This was the first such large cabinet in Nepal's history. There were only 12 assistant ministers. There was public criticism of the size of the cabinet. But the voice of opposition was weak under the guise of power and authority. In the three months that Deuba was Prime Minister, new problems were arising due to internal strife in the parties in the government, so a strategy was adopted to dissuade them from going against the government. It is still politically analyzed that the distortions in the parliamentary system began with the government after 2052.

At that time, 29 members of the Congress, 13 of the RPP and 1 each of Sadbhavana and Independent were included in the Council of Ministers. Lila Koirala of the Congress became the Minister of Women and Social Welfare, Bal Bahadur KC became the Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Bimalendra Nidhi became the Minister of General Administration, Prakash Man Singh became the Minister of Population and Environment and Narahari Acharya became the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs.

Sharad Singh Bhandari was made the Minister of State without a Department. The assistant ministers from the Congress were Chin Kaji Shrestha Finance, Gopal Ji Jung Shah Industry, Hasta Bahadur Mall Education, Deepak Baskota Home, Ganesh Bahadur Khadka Construction and Transport, Chhabi Prasad Devkota Population and Environment, Duryodhan Chaudhary Women and Social Welfare, Ram Chandra Kushwaha Information and Communication, Suresh Chandra Das Yadav Health, Min Bahadur Khatri Forest and Soil Conservation, Palden Gurung Youth, Sports and Culture and Jyotendra Mohan Chaudhary Labor. Of those included in the cabinet from the Congress, 16 were from the House of Representatives and 2 from the National Assembly. Prakash Man was the Kathmandu District President of the Congress at that time.

Acharya and Singh had become ministers from the National Assembly. Nidhi and KC were leaders who had already become presidents of the Nepali Sangh, while independent MPs Bhandari and Gurung had joined the Congress. Independent MP Jyotendra Mohan was also made an assistant minister by the Congress.

Senior leaders of the former party of the Panchayats, RPP, including Pashupati Shamsher Rana, Kamal Thapa, Prakash Chandra Lohani, Padmasundar Lawati, Fattesingh Tharu, and Buddhiman Tamang, had already participated in the cabinet. Internal conflicts were also increasing in the RPP over the work and activities of those who became ministers. In the Congress too, senior leaders of the second generation had participated in almost all the cabinets.