In 2052 Bhadra, Congress parliamentary party leader Sher Bahadur Deuba, who became Prime Minister, expanded the cabinet to 48 members. Until then, Prime Minister Deuba was the first in the history of Nepal to rule with a jumbo cabinet.

Deuba, who became Prime Minister with the support of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), which had won 20 seats in the mid-term elections in 2051 Kartik, had a hard time maintaining power. UML had proposed RPP parliamentary party leader Lokendra Bahadur Chand as Prime Minister to topple the Congress government, and dissatisfaction with Deuba's working style was growing within the Congress.

Deuba had maintained the government by adopting a strategy of settling disputes and fulfilling whatever the lawmakers demanded. 16 RPP members were made ministers. However, the ministry was not 'smooth' and there were repeated demands to promote him from assistant to minister of state.

On the other hand, if Chand gained a majority in the party, there was a possibility of a no-confidence motion against the government. Therefore, Deuba wanted to continue as prime minister no matter what the demands of the MPs and ministers were. For that, there was no possibility of Deuba taking action against the cabinet members who were involved in any incident or made mistakes. Deuba was worried that the government would collapse if one MP got angry. He wanted to save the government by facing the situation.

Taking advantage of that, MPs and ministers wanted to profit from irregularities under the guise of power. After the situation arose where the Prime Minister could not remove or take action, misuse of state funds increased widely. Decisions made by ministers were drawn into controversy. Incidents of selling luxury cars purchased by MPs had come to light. Agriculture Minister Padmasundar Lawati was accused of irregularities in the purchase of chemical fertilizers. Supplies Minister Gajendra Narayan Singh was accused of appointing directors in the Oil Corporation illegally. Not only that, he was also accused of demanding a bribe of Rs 50 million and embezzling government funds by submitting fake bills. Industry Minister Dhundiraj Shastri was accused of misusing a vehicle of the Udayapur Cement Industry. The board of directors of the Nepal Telecommunications Corporation was accused of taking a bribe of Rs 10 million for a decision made regarding the telephone auction tender. The issue of financial irregularities by Communications Minister Chiranjeevi Wagle by making that decision was raised. Forest Minister Sheikh Idris was accused of selling a luxury vehicle and taking double benefits from government funds while going to the US for treatment. Land Reforms Minister Buddhiman Tamang was accused of failing to protect Guthi land.

The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority had started an investigation with the increasing discussion of irregularities involving the members of the cabinet. The Authority had issued a statement to Agriculture Minister Lawati regarding the purchase of chemical fertilizers. The MPs had been pressuring Minister Lawati to resign repeatedly in the House. But he had been ignoring it. Minister of Supplies Singh had appointed two businessmen doing business with the Oil Corporation, Birendra Kumar Das of Birgunj and Rajendra Kumar Gupta of Butwal, to run the corporation. The decision was against the prevailing law. The Authority had started an investigation into the matter of another businessman appointed by Minister Singh receiving a payment of Rs 6 lakh as a director of National Trading Limited using fake bills. The Authority had started an investigation into the allegations that the directors of National Trading had received a payment of lakhs of rupees by a single person by making a bill for staying at a hotel while attending a meeting of the board of directors. Committee member Ramji Prasad Rauniyar was seen presenting a fake bill and receiving a payment of Rs 195,553 on the day he attended the committee meeting. Nepal Sadbhavan Party member Awadhkishore Singh received a payment of Rs 150,774, Bishwanath Singh received a payment of Rs 174,953 and Ravindra Singh received a payment of Rs 41,200 from the fake bill. The Authority had started an investigation against them. Assistant Minister for Supplies Anish Ansari himself had made a public statement that the departmental minister Singh had taken a bribe of Rs 500,000. The Authority had written to Assistant Minister Ansari to confirm what he had said.

Communications Minister Chiranjeevi Wagle was accused of irregularities in telephone procurement. An investigation was started into the matter of the Telecommunication Corporation Board of Directors accepting a bribe of Rs 10 million in a telephone procurement tender. An investigation was launched into allegations that two foreign tenderers were given a tender to purchase 30,000 lines out of 60,000 telephone lines at different prices and received commissions. The commission had started an investigation on suspicion of irregularities of about $180,000 in the said purchase. The then Secretary of the Ministry of Land Reforms, Bishnu Prasad Khatri, was accused of transferring about 80 ropanis of land of Kedareshwor Guthi to a person with access. The land was located in the areas around Baneshwor and Dhobikhola. The Authority was preparing to summon Minister Buddhiman Tamang as Land Secretary Khatri, who was facing a case for irregularities in the purchase of computers, was suspended. The Authority had summoned Forest Minister Sheikh Idris to inquire about the sale of a vehicle received as a facility. However, Minister Idris had not given a statement even after the Authority's deadline passed. When Minister Idris went to the United States for treatment, he had received financial assistance of $150,000 from the government and $50,000 for his caregivers. An investigation was launched into the issue of double benefits after it was found that he had also taken Rs 200,000 in medical expenses from an organization called D Mountain.

The CIAA had launched an investigation into the misuse of three vehicles of the loss-making Udayapur Cement Industry. It was found that two of the industry's vehicles were used by Industry Minister Shastri and one vehicle by Assistant Minister Gopalji Jung Shah. The commission had sought an explanation from the minister regarding the use of the loss-making industry's vehicles. The news prepared by journalist duo Gunaraj Luintel and Hari Bahadur Thapa, focusing on the tactics adopted by Prime Minister Deuba in the name of maintaining power, incidents of ministers being involved in financial irregularities, and misuse of state funds, was published by Kantipur Daily on Kartik 2, 2053 under the title 'Investigation of Five More Ministers by the Authority'. The misuse of state funds by the ministers at that time is still being discussed. The game of power politics at that time in the parliamentary system is now being discussed as ugly history.